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How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language.Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because …
A new edition of a foundational work of cognitive science that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions.Since it was introduced to the …
A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization.Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the …
A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, "targeting," underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external).In this book, Leonard …
A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in …
An argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening …
Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.We acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in infancy and early childhood. Language is our …
An argument that computational models can shed light on referring, a fundamental and much-studied aspect of communication.To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they …
A collection of papers exploring why children acquire speech easily yet bog down when it comes to learning to read.Why do most children acquire speech easily yet bog down when it …
Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of …