Psycholinguistics

As children begin to use language in early childhood, they produce increasingly large units of coherent speech, including narrative descriptions of...

Designed to help those studying speech-language pathology, this highly useful workbook is both an introduction to the basic concepts and a teaching...

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speec...

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and ...

In a work that is part memoir, part monograph, Nigel Duffield offers a set of lyrical reflections on theories of Psycholinguistics, which is concer...

In this accessible introduction, Mike Sharwood Smith provides a working model or 'map' of the mind, with language as its centrepiece. Drawing on cu...

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving t...

How does a human acquire, comprehend, produce and control multiple languages with just the power of one mind? What are the cognitive consequences o...

An essential study aid for students of speech and language pathology, this highly practical workbook includes short-answer questions and data analy...

How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence o...

Statistics and hypothesis testing are routinely used in areas (such as linguistics) that are traditionally not mathematically intensive. In such fi...

This book explores how and in what ways the relationship between language, mind and computation can be conceived of, given that a number of foundat...

Have you ever wondered whether you speak the right kind of French? Have you ever felt ashamed of the way you speak, or of the way people in your co...

Consciousness, Language, and Self proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental pro...

Originally published in 1987 this volume presented a comprehensive state-of-the-art account of what was known about the psychology of reading at th...

Psycholinguistics: Introduction and Applications, Second Edition is the first textbook in psycholinguistics created for working language profession...

In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural population...

In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a split. In this book,...

Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while? We live in a world that doesnt ...

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think about where we left our keys, what we are going to make fo...

Wonderful . . . Endlessly interesting and beautifully written DAILY TELEGRAPH Steady-headed and fun SUNDAY TIMESRead this book and, I promise, youl...

In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology....

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is t...

By understanding the processes that underlie language ability, we can help develop more effective ways to teach people to read and make the books t...

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradi...

Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition features contributions from the fields leading scientists, and covers recent developments and current...

This second edition of the bestselling textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field. As well as being fully revised and updated ...

Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet its easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the st...

«Bringing together specialists from linguistics, psychology and philosophy, the book offers an exciting collection of papers assessing the conceptu...

Beyond the well-known reading and spelling difficulties, dyslexic individuals exhibit marked phonological disorders, poor lexical retrieval and pro...