Article: Jonathan Leather and Jet van Dam, editors: Ecology of Language Acquisition.(Book Review)

Jonathan Leather and Jet van Dam, editors: Ecology of Language Acquisition. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. xi + 225 pp. Hardcover ISBN 1402010176.

This book stresses ecological dyamism in language acquisition, with the editors regarding "the individual's cognitive processes as inextricably interwoven with their experiences in the physical and social world" (p. 13). Various theoretical and empirical studies compiled in this volume analyze the influence of the individual's active interactions with environments on his or her language and cognitive mechanisms, challenging the dominant premise that grammar is a closed system based on universal ...

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