This volume emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. The studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory. It is of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals.

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Product Description: Intracellular Calcium Regulation Editor Felix Bronner A notable development in biological research is the recent widespread interest in the role played by calcium in cellular metabolism. Calcium homeostasis has been studied intensively for many years and mechanisms by which calcium absorption, excretion and bone deposition are effected and regulated are beginning to be understood in detail...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Intended for cell, molecular and developmental biologists, biochemists, physiologists, neuroscientists, and microbiologists, this volume discusses such topics as the role of GTP-binding proteins in signal transduction, and calcium pumps in the plasma and intracellular membranes,