Table of Contents

1. First Language Learning by Children2. The Deaf and Language: Sign, Oral, Written3. Children Raised in the Wild and Isolation4. Reading: Fundamental Principles and Teaching5. Animals and Language Learning6. The Need for a Theory of Grammar7. Current Theories of Grammar and Speech Processing8. Relationship of Language to Thought and Culture9. Origin of Language Knowledge10. Language and the Brain11. Second Language Acquisition12. Teaching Methods and Bilingualism

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About the Author

Danny D. Steinberg is Professor Emeritus of Surugadai University and has previously taught at University of Hawaii and Rikkyo University. He is author of a number of books on semantic theory and psycholinguistics including,Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology (with L. Jakobovits; 1971) and Psycholinguistics: Language, Mind and World (with H Nagata and D. Aline; 2nd edition, 2000). Natalia V. Sciarini is an independent researcher, writer and translator, and works at the Research Services and Collections Department at Yale University. She was previously a lecturer of Introductory Linguistics and the Theory and Practice of Translation at Ulyanovsk State University.