There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

Background In domains other than language, there is fairly consistent diagnostic
terminology to refer to children's developmental difficulties. For instance, the terms …

Este livro traça um panorama dos principais pressupostos teóricos e contribuições
analíticas que caracterizam a Linguística Cognitiva. Ao apresentar os principais modelos …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is
representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7000 or so languages …

Despite a multitude of empirical studies, little consensus exists on whether neural networks
are able to generalise compositionally, a controversy that, in part, stems from a lack of …

How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make
meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether
investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …