Usage-based approaches typically draw on a relatively small set of cognitive processes,
such as categorization, analogy, and chunking to explain language structure and function …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child …

I first outline three major developments in child language research over the past forty years:
the use of computational modelling to reveal the structure of information in the input; the …

After half a century of self-imposed exile from the cognitive scene, cognitive linguists are
putting language back on stage: language is no longer considered a highly specialized and …

This established text--now revised and updated--reveals how spoken language skills are
acquired and how they affect children's later reading and writing achievement. With a unique …

This chapter outlines a constructivist account of the process of language acquisition. It
summarizes the constructivist account of development, and the current state of the empirical …

Signing systems that attempted to represent spoken language via manual signs–some
invented, and some borrowed from natural sign languages–have historically been used in …

In causal dependent clauses, the preferred referent of a pronoun varies systematically with
the verb in the main clause (contrast Sally frightens Mary because she… with Sally loves …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …