Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures viii
4. List of tables ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
7. Part I The Basic Specifications
8. Chapter 2 Language processing: speed and flexibility 5
9. Chapter 3 Language acquisition: robustness 29
10. Chapter 4 Language in the brain 40
11. Chapter 5 Language and other cognitive processes 50
12. Chapter 6 Biological underpinnings 58
13. Part II The Building Blocks of Language
14. Chapter 7 Words 79
15. Chapter 8 On rules and regularity 116
16. Chapter 9 Syntactic constructions 159
17. Chapter 10 The cognitive enterprise 203
18. Bibliography 230
19. Index 259