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“melissa bowerman”

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  • Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure

    Implications for Learnability

    Edited by Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown ...
    This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure properties than has been realized.The volume is the outcome of an integrated research project and com ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

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  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

    Edited by Edith L. Bavin ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the handbook is organized by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to use when looking up specific in-depth information. It covers a wider range of subjects than any other ... Read more

    $56.99 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

  • Neurobiology of Language

    Edited by Gregory Hickok, Steven L. Small ...
    Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward integration of neurobiological approaches with the more established understanding of language within cognitive psychology, computer science, and linguistics. This volume serves as the definitive reference on the ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

    by Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria F. Barcelos, Mari Aro, Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty ...
    This book explores the phenomena of believing (or giving personal meanings), acting, and identifying (or identity construction), and the interconnectedness of these phenomena in the learning and teaching of English and other foreign languages. ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Linguanomics

    What is the Market Potential of Multilingualism?

    by Dr Gabrielle Hogan-Brun ...
    Globalization, the Internet and an era of mass travel have combined to produce a world with a language mix on a huge scale. Linguanomics explains this multilingualism in a material, economic and cultural sense.What is the effect of this multilingualism on society, organizations and individuals? What are the economic benefits and drawbacks? Should we invest in language skills? Should there be ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society

    Implications of the Work of Jack Goody

    Edited by David R. Olson, Michael Cole ...
    Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address the role of technologies in social stability and change in traditional and modern societies. In this ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Classification of Developmental Language Disorders

    Theoretical Issues and Clinical Implications

    Edited by Ludo Verhoeven, Hans van Balkom ...
    Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders. They address the question: How can the child's linguistic environment be restructured so that children at risk can develop important adaptive skills in the domains of self-care, social interaction, and problem solving? This theory-based, but practical book emphasizes the ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Introducing Language and Cognition

    A Map of the Mind

    by Michael Sharwood Smith ...
    In this accessible introduction, Mike Sharwood Smith provides a working model or 'map' of the mind, with language as its centrepiece. Drawing on cutting-edge research across linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, it allows students to quickly grasp how each separate aspect of the mind's operations can be related. This 'big picture' view includes the way the mind makes, stores and loses memories ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Writing

    Redefining Mass Literacy

    by Deborah Brandt ...
    Millions of Americans routinely spend half their working day or more with their hands on keyboards and their minds on audiences - writing so much, in fact, that they have less time and appetite for reading. In this highly anticipated sequel to her award-winning Literacy in American Lives, Deborah Brandt moves beyond laments about the decline of reading to focus on the rise of writing. What happens ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT

    Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

    Edited by Anne Burns, Joseph Siegel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It brings together contributors from across six continents, who analyse a wide range of teaching and learning contexts, including primary, secondary, tertiary, private, and adult ESL/EFL classes. In doing so, they provide locally relevant accounts ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD