"Research on reading has tried, and failed, to account for wide disparities in reading skill even among children taught by the same method. Why do some children learn to read easily and quickly while others, in the same classroom and taught by the same teacher, don't learn to re…
"This iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capacities are innate or inborn : "native" to the mind rather than acquired. Fiona Cowie argues that this view is mistaken, demonstrating that …
This text brings together a group of researchers with a shared interest in the simultaneous acquisition of two languages in early childhood. It looks for explanations for the various facets of bilingual development.
This text brings together a group of researchers with a shared interest in the simultaneous acquisition of two languages in early childhood. It looks for explanations for the various facets of bilingual development.
This study has been conducted within the larger context of the project SKOBI and its research questions concerning the acquisition and development of linguistic connectivity in Turkish and German in bilingual children. The phenomenon analyzed is approached from the perspective o…
This book examines how such discoveries have changed the way we think about the structure of the mind. It contends that the mind is more supple than prevailing theories in cognitive science and artificial intelligence acknowledge. The book uses language as a test case. The claim…
