This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidl

The book presents a new theory of syntax that is efficiency and computationally oriented and is compatible with the "emergentist" movement within linguistics.

How do children learn their first words? The field of language development has been polarized by responses to this question. Explanations range from accounts th

What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constra