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  • Pragmatics and Modularity

    Theory, Data, and Challenges from a Developmental Perspective

    by Edoardo Vaccargiu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the hypothesis that pragmatic communication is supported by a specialized cognitive module for inferring communicative intentions, closely linked to the mindreading capacity to attribute mental states. Drawing on research in linguistic pragmatics, philosophy, evolutionary and developmental psychology, the book evaluates the psychological plausibility of this hypothesis in light ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition 2nd Edition

    by Rod Ellis ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    In the 30 years since Rod Ellis first published the award-winning Understanding Second Language Acquisition, it has become a classic text. This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition. Ellis presents a comprehensive overview of the different theories in this field and ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

    by Muriel Saville-Troike, Karen Barto ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    Providing a solid foundation in second language acquisition, this book has become the leading introduction to the subject for students of linguistics, psychology and education, and trainee language teachers. Now in its third edition, the textbook offers comprehensive coverage of fundamental concepts, including second language acquisition (SLA) in adults and children, in formal and informal ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism

    by Ping Li, François Grosjean ...
    The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition and the bilingual brain.This thorough introduction to the psycholinguistics of bilingualism is accessible to non-specialists with little previous exposure to the fieldIntroduces students to the methodological approaches ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

    Perspectives and Practices

    by Kirsten M. Hummel ...
    Series series Linguistics in the World
    Introducing Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives and Practices represents a clear and concise introduction to the main concepts, issues, and debates in second language acquisition studies aimed specifically at undergraduates encountering the topic for the first time.Follows six fictitious language learners throughout the text whose stories serve to introduce various concepts and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics

    by Helen Smith Cairns, Eva M. Fernández ...
    Series series Fundamentals of Linguistics
    Introducing the fundamental issues in psycholinguistics, this book explores the amazing story of the unconscious processes that take place when humans use language. It is an ideal text for undergraduates taking a first course in the study of language.Topics covered include the biological foundations of language; acquisition of first and second languages in children and adults; the mental lexicon; ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition identifies what the differences are, and suggests where they might have come from.Tomasello argues that ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition

    An Introduction

    by Bill VanPatten, Megan Smith, Alessandro G. Benati ...
    This highly accessible introductory textbook carefully explores the main issues that have driven the field of second language acquisition research. Intended for students with little or no background in linguistics or psycholinguistics, it explains important linguistic concepts, and how and why they are relevant to second language acquisition. Topics are presented via a 'key questions' structure ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition? What are the properties of interlanguage systems? This comprehensive 31-chapter handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA). Its multi-perspective synopsis on recent ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Second Language Acquisition

    A Theoretical Introduction To Real World Applications

    by Professor Alessandro G. Benati, Tanja Angelovska ...
    This book is written in order to help undergraduate students and trainee teachers to reflect on certain topics and key issues related to second language acquisition. Despite the proliferation of books and introductory courses in second language acquisition, most of these books very often provide a very complex account of theoretical views in second language acquisition and sometimes fail to ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • First and Second Language Acquisition

    Parallels and Differences

    by Jürgen M. Meisel ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling without, it seems, ever being able to reach the same level of proficiency as five year olds in their first language. This useful textbook serves as a guide to different types of language acquisition: monolingual ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Stories, Scripts, and Scenes

    Aspects of Schema Theory

    by J. M. Mandler ...
    Series series Distinguished Lecture Series
    First published in 1984. This book is an expansion of three lectures on schema theory given at the University of Alberta in the fall of 1983 as part of the MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series. ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD