Product Description: Over the past forty years, scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different concepts and different methods of interpretation. In The Emergence of Meaning Stephen Crain challenges this view, arguing that a common logical nativism underpins human language and logical reasoning...read more

Product Description: This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammer, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Production task, a comprehension task...read more

Light is the key element of photography, and understanding the principles of light’s color, temperature, intensity, direction, and quality is extremely important in taking quality photos. This book shows how to control these principles to achieve high-quality artistic and commercial photographs of people. The numerous examples and illustrations demonstrate set-ups and results, and the exercises provide practice on the techniques described. With the advice in this book for manipulating studio, strobe, reflected, background, and natural light, consistent results and situation adaptability will come easily to both the novice and professional photographer.

Secrets of lighting for photographing people. Learn how to control lighting in any situation, achieve consistent and accurate color, master natural and strobe lighting, mix and modify lighting, and more. Step-by-step exercises and techniques professional photographer Stephen Crain will help you achieve consistently outstanding results in advertising and portrait photography.

Product Description: Written by two of the foremost researchers in the field, the book benefits from their insight into conceptual issues, their understanding of experimentation, and their own pioneering research.

Product Description: This special issue is devoted to the development of binding -- an area of linguistic theory that has received extensive experimental attention in acquisition research. The rich experimental and theoretical detail of the articles presented provides results containing many important properties of grammatical development...read more