The Principle of Contrast, that different words have different meanings, holds for adult
language use. But at what age do children assume Contrast? Do they rely on it from the …

Traditionally, cognitive development has been viewed either as the acquisition of knowledge
through simple and highly general learning procedures (learning theory views) or as radical …

How do people know as much as they do with as little information as they get? The problem
takes many forms; learning vocabulary from text is an especially dramatic and convenient …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

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

Language production processes can provide insight into how language comprehension
works and language typology—why languages tend to have certain characteristics more …

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in
syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the …

The analysis of referring expressions can be divided into two branches for our purposes.
The first includes theories of definite descriptions and proper names. The key to the riddle of …