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 language use at its deepest levels. The
conclusion is that language is special, not because it is an
encapsulated module separate from the rest of cognition, but
because of the forms it can take rather than the parts it is made
of, and because it could be nature's finest example of cognitive
recycling and reuse.
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