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Action Meets Word
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 44.99Talks about verb learning. This volume focuses on the universal, conceptual foundations for verb learning, and how these foundations intersect with the language system. more...
The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar
Springer 2006; US$ 54.99Investigates the linguistic development of children with regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. This book features a selection of papers that gives empirical evidence from a variety of languages including Hebrew, German, Croatian, Japanese, English, Spanish, Dutch, Indonesian, Estonian, Russian, and French. more...
Linguistic Relativity in SLA
Channel View Publications 2010; US$ 54.95Crosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and as such, it has been subject to extensive scrutiny. This volume examines the relationship between thought and language, in particular thought as shaped by first language development and use, and its interaction with second language use. more...
Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 173.00This volume presents the first collection of work on research synthesis in applied linguistics. It introduces readers to a cutting-edge approach for reviewing and summarizing exactly what accumulated research has to say about theoretical and practical subjects. John Norris and Lourdes Ortega first elucidate the value and practice of synthesis,... more...
Trends in Bilingual Acquisition
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 128.00The chapters in this volume provide the first comprehensive overview of trends in research on early phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development in children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously. Ongoing as well as emerging issues are examined and discussed by leading researchers in the field. Collectively, these studies extend... more...
Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus
Wiley 2010; US$ 109.95This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues. Critically examines the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus - the theory that the linguistic input... more...
Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 41.95Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research is an accessible introduction to the use of auditory, semantic, and syntactic priming methods for second language (L2) processing and acquisition research. It provides a guide for the use, design, and implementation of priming tasks and an overview of how to analyze and report priming research. Key... more...
Becoming Human
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 149.00What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patterns, the evocation of absent objects and the grasping of others? false beliefs all have in common? Apart from being (one way or other) involved in the language, they all would share a demanding requirement ? a second mental centre within the subject. This redefinition of the simulationism... more...
Sprachentwicklung bei misshandelten Kindern: Eine empirische Untersuchung an vernachlässigten Kindern unter sechs Jahren
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 42.59Hauptbeschreibung Kindesmisshandlungen und deren massive Auswirkungen auf die gesamte kindliche Entwicklung beschäftigen die Forschung bereits seit der Antike. Jedoch wurden zunächst eher halbherzige Versuche unternommen deren Bedingungsfaktoren und -hintergründen oder deren Auswirkungen auf den Grund zu gehen. Erst sehr spät, ab den 1960er Jahren,... more...









