Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

Our understanding of the relationships between lexical and phonological development has
been enhanced in recent years by increased interest in this area from language scientists …

Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget.
Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how
the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species …

This book synthesizes much of the exciting recent research in the biology of language.
Drawing on data from anatomy, neurophysiology, physiology, and behavioral biology, Philip …

Unlike many recent books on L2 vocabulary and processing, this volume does not set out to
offer a complex perspective of the L2 lexicon, but rather represents a sustained attempt to …