Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Michael Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities. Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dime...(展开全部)

This text is an up-to-date introduction to language acquisition, designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science. It is the first language acquisition text to be written from the perspective of recent theoretical linguistics, and uses Chomskyan generative grammar as a framework for description. Taking mo...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 史蒂文•罗杰•费舍尔（Steven Roger Fischer），语言史和古代书写系统研究领域的国际专家，曾任新西兰奥克兰波利尼西亚语言文学研究所所长。著有《语言的历史》《书写的历史》《阅读的历史》《复活岛手记：历史、传统与文本》《世界尽头的岛屿》《太平洋岛屿的历史》等。费舍尔对解读复活节岛和克里特岛上的古代文字做出了突出贡献，2010年当选为新西兰皇家学会会员。 【译者简介】 熊莎，毕业于浙江大学外国语学院，主攻英语语言文学专业，研究方向为中西文化交流，曾参与《剑桥非洲史》等图书的编校工作。

【作者简介】 史蒂文•罗杰•费舍尔（Steven Roger Fischer），语言史和古代书写系统研究领域的国际专家，曾任新西兰奥克兰波利尼西亚语言文学研究所所长。著有《语言的历史》《书写的历史》《阅读的历史》《复活岛手记：历史、传统与文本》《世界尽头的岛屿》《太平洋岛屿的历史》等。费舍尔对解读复活节岛和克里特岛上的古代文字做出了突出贡献，2010年当选为新西兰皇家学会会员。 【译者简介】 熊莎，毕业于浙江大学外国语学院，主攻英语语言文学专业，研究方向为中西文化交流，曾参与《剑桥非洲史》等图书的编校工作。

Can normative words like "good," "ought," and "reason" be defined in entirely non-normative terms? Confusion of Tongues argues that they can, advancing a new End-Relational theory of the meaning of this language as providing the best explanation of the many different ways it is ordinarily used. Philosophers widely maintain that analyzing normative language as describing facts a...(展开全部)

Can normative words like "good," "ought," and "reason" be defined in entirely non-normative terms? Confusion of Tongues argues that they can, advancing a new End-Relational theory of the meaning of this language as providing the best explanation of the many different ways it is ordinarily used. Philosophers widely maintain that analyzing normative language as describing facts a...(展开全部)

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolin...(展开全部)

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolin...(展开全部)

Written for students encountering the topic for the first time, this is a clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition (SLA). It explains in non-technical language how a second language is acquired; what the second language learner needs to know; and why some learners are more successful than others. The textbook introduces in a step-by-step fashion a range o...(展开全部)