His book describes the intimate relationship between words and their components and offers new insights into their evolution. Models are offered for how Chinese words are stored in the mental lexicon and processed in natural speech. This book presents a wealth of information on some of the most interesting languages in the world, most of them little-known in the linguistics literature. R. M. W. Dixon has also contributed a comprehensive chapter on causatives across the languages of the world. The volume will providevaluable insights both for formal theoreticians and for linguistic typologists.
Some children can hear and can speak, yet have trouble understanding or producing utterances.
In this accessible introduction to the study of children's language difficulties, Shula Chiat explores the stumbling blocks that lie behind their struggle.