Brief Contents

1 ■ Science, Language, and the Science of Language

2 ■ Origins of Human Language

3 ■ Language and the Brain

4 ■ Learning Sound Patterns

5 ■ Learning Words

6 ■ Learning the Structure of Sentences

7 ■ Speech Perception

8 ■ Word Recognition

9 ■ Understanding Sentence Structure and Meaning

10 ■ Speaking: From Planning to Articulation

11 ■ Discourse and Inference

12 ■ The Social Side of Language

13 ■ Language Diversity