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Cognitive Foundations of Second Language Acquisition: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Russell S. Tomlin
Affiliation:
University of Oregon
Morton A. Gernsbacher
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Extract

The growth of cognitive science as a field, or at least as a descriptive term, indicates an emerging scientific consensus that many fundamental human capacities require collaborative and interdisciplinary research to make further fundamental headway. Language, as central to our essential humanity as anything is, represents one area in which massive amounts of interdisciplinary research is underway at virtually every research institution in the world.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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