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Beyond Words : How We Learn, Use, and Lose Language.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stollznow, Karen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "What is language? Where did it come from? How do babies learn it from scratch? How do we pick up languages beyond our mother tongue? This eye-opening book answers big questions about language and the mind, explaining how we use and understand language, and what happens when things go wrong"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The mysteries of language
- What is language?
- Where did language come from?
- How do we learn our mother tongue?
- How do we use and understand language?
- How do we lose language?
- How do we learn other languages?
- Conclusions: In other words.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-58738-2
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