This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon.
For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory, attention, inhibition, categorisation, analogy and social cognition - the book examines how they shape the development of sounds, words and grammar.
The unfolding cognitive and social world of the child interacts with, constrains, and predicts languag.
Walter De Gruyter What it takes to talk: exploring developmental cognitive linguistics, hardcover/paul ibbotson
