The lexicon represents the building blocks of language: words and vocabulary. Most of us think of language in terms of words, and words are also integral to the

Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.

This volume does not offer a complex perspective of the L2 lexicon, but rather represents a sustained attempt to answer some very basic questions clustered arou

"Do you know the difference between an accent and a dialect? Are you unsure what uptalk is? Have you ever pondered how we produce speech? Perhaps you're confuse

Without words, children can't talk about people, places, things, actions, relations, or states, and they have no grammatical rules. Without words, there would b