Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evolving fiel

Leading scholars examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development.

This book provides a snapshot of the field of language acquisition at the beginning of the 21st Century. It represents the multiplicity of approaches that chara

A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs." Before Steven Pinker wrote bes

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children int