Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies.

This book examines the benefits of an Australian in-country study (ICS) in China programme and explores ways to maximise the short-term ICS experience in a multilingual space.

American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides an accessible introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of American English.

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project.

This volume brings together studies, research syntheses, and critical commentaries that examine play-literacy relationships from cognitive, ecological, and cultural perspectives.

The study of text cohesion and coherence has been a topic of heated discussion in Linguistics since the 1990s.

El español empezó a enseñarse en China a partir de los años cincuenta del siglo xx.

This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved so far and to make sense of it.

Drawing on the collective expertise of language scholars and educators in a variety of subdisciplines, the Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Volume II, provides a comprehensive treatment of teaching and research in Arabic as a second and foreign language worldwide.

This collection offers a critical examination of online language teacher education programs (OLTE), looking at a range of issues which have informed their development and the challenges and opportunities in their implementation from a TESOL perspective.

An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language.

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and, in addition, each contributor was asked to include a brief history that chronicles the legacies within each of the volume's many topics.

This book discusses the trajectories of minority students' acculturation in terms of school and family-related characteristics that are influential for school adjustment of minority youths.

The Spanish language is spoken by an estimated 477 million people worldwide.

Examines non-verbal behaviours from a pragmatic perspective, establishing the role they play in our communication.

Makiguchi Tsunesaburo (1871-1944) was a Japanese schoolteacher, principal, educational philosopher, and Buddhist war resister.

** WINNER OF ILTA/SAGE Best Book Award 2020 **Assessing English for Professional Purposes provides a state-of-the-art account of the various kinds of language assessments used to determine people's abilities to function linguistically in the workplace.

This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices interact with and contribute to their evolving identities as students and professionals in academic environments in higher education.

This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the languages of the world as well as comparison with languages that express similar types of relations without morphological case-marking; (2) formal analyses in different theoretical frameworks of the syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties of case-marking; (3) a historical approach of case-marking; (4) a psycholinguistic approach of case-marking.

A COUNTERNARRATIVEThis groundbreaking book uncovers how anti-Black racism has informed and perpetuated anti-literacy laws, policies, and customs from the colonial period to the present day.

This book examines the language abilities of persons with Down Syndrome who are able to read.

Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it.

In this book, a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression.

This collection celebrates the work of Paulo Freire by assembling transnational perspectives on Freirean-based educational models that reconsider and reimagine language and literacy instruction, especially for multilingual learners.

Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice.

This textbook provides an accessible overview of the field of sociolinguistics.

A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly.

This volume showcases how concept-based language instruction (C-BLI) can be effectively integrated into foreign language instruction.

This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other.

This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch.

Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers.

Ever since attempts were made to describe and explain normal language development, references to exceptional circumstances have been made.

Infants learn to communicate through everyday social interaction with their caregivers in a multisensory world involving sight, hearing, touch and smell.

Exploring the canonical topics in second language acquisition, this book introduces different theoretical perspectives and explores the types of research carried out in the field.

An interdisciplinary examination of recent research into how children''s language develops over time.

This volume presents a multinational perspective on the juxtaposition of language and politics.

A comprehensive review for those interested in the range of theoretical concerns in speech and language processing.

This book provides an overview of the structures, topics and main theories of syntactic processing.

This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens, including home and school contexts.

The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication.

The volume explores the relationship between well-studied aspects of language (constructional alternations, lexical contrasts and extensions and multi-word expressions) in a variety of languages (Dutch, English, Russian and Spanish) and their representation in cognition as mediated by frequency counts in both text and experiment.

This textbook provides a framework for teaching children's language and literacy and introduces research-based tactics for teachers to use in designing their literacy programs for children.

This book describes a new approach to teaching foreign languages for primary and secondary school that shifts the attention from learning the language to communicate skillfully in the foreign language.

This book explores the relation between language and our senses and emotions, taking readers into domains as diverse as wine-tasting, marriage guidance counselling, medical training and face recognition.

This book introduces a new framework for analyzing second language (L2) learners' written texts.