This article reviews briefly some recent work on relationships across a spectrum of
functionalist, cognitivist and constructionist approaches to language. It then goes on to chart …

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Children find object relative clauses difficult. They show poor comprehension that lags
behind production into their fifth year. This finding has shaped models of relative clause …

Language is one of the defining traits of humans. It rests on a set of uniquely human
competencies in social interaction–an instinct for cooperation, an awareness of other minds …

Investigations of iconicity in language, whereby interactants coordinate meaningful bodily
actions to create resemblances, are prevalent across the human communication sciences …

The concept of 'constructions' covers the range from fully unanalyzed or “frozen” units to
abstract and productive schemas that can be used to form new utterances, even with verbs …

Anat Ninio's important new book places the syntactic learning process under close scrutiny.
The focus of the book is on the characteristics of linguistic input and the resultant output …

Linguists have long been interested in the grammatical structure of native signed languages.
The identification and analysis of units such as clauses and sentences has been of …

Notre travail porte sur l'usage des liaisons variables en lecture et, plus spécifiquement, dans
la lecture d'ouvrages destinés aux enfants, à partir de deux corpus: un module du corpus …