This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in
children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a phenomenon that any …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Usage-based approaches typically draw on a relatively small set of cognitive processes,
such as categorization, analogy, and chunking to explain language structure and function …

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There are, however, major debates as to what they bring to this language learning: do they
come with innate, specifically syntactic skills or, rather, with more general cognitive and …

on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and
accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language …

This paper addresses the relationship between the frequency of morphological, lexical and
syntactic forms in the input and children's language acquisition. The problem of obtaining …

Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language
Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition …

Over the past forty years, scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on
the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different …

When considering how salience is used within the context of second language acquisition
(SLA), there are at least two angles from which to consider the construct. On the one hand …