Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly and laboriously but at twenty months he or she acquires an average of ten new words per day. How can we explain this phenomenal change? A theory of word acquisition will not only deepen our ...

The sultry Cleo Chandler knew it would not be a good day the moment she opened her eyes to the sound of the thundrous pounding on her front door. Throwing open her bedroom window, she was chilled by the two uniformed police officers appearance. Until that moment she had been living the "perfect" suburban life. It was then that her world was forever changed. In the bucolic setting of Long Island, Peter and Cleo Chandler are caught in a horrifying web of terror and deception. This socially s...