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 ...