Psycholinguistics

Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether thes...

Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in mo...

Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives aims to analyse names and the act of naming from an intercultural perspective, both synchro...

This textbooks introduces the main arguments for an innate, domain specific capacity to learn human language. It guides you through the growth of l...

Forensic linguistics is at the cutting edge of the undercover policing of child sexual abuse on the open internet and dark web, and language and id...

Speech perception has been the focus of innumerable studies over the past decades. While our abilities to recognize individuals by their voice stat...

The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relate...

Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumpt...

This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant...

There is undoubtedly considerable intellectual and methodological progress evident in approaches to linguistics, from systemic and formal methods, ...

Despite the fact that writing has arisen independently many times in various different regions of the world, including Egypt, Sumer, China, and Mex...

Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book int...

This book is the first dedicated to linguistic parsing - the processing of natural language according to the rules of a formal grammar - in the Min...

On Goodness attempts to answer the question What is goodness? It is natural to associate this question with ethics; but goodness is not confined to...

For most native speakers of English, the meanings of ordinary words like blue, cup, stumble, and carve seem quite natural and self-evident. It turn...

Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in...

This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual ...

What roles do the speaker and the listener play in communication processes? Providing an overall system view, this innovative textbook explains how...

The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed a fundamental scientific discovery: the identification of mirror neurons and, consequently...

Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaph...

This book focuses on important methodological and theoretical issues in Chinese and Japanese L1 and L2 acquisition. All contributions discuss exper...

This volume is dedicated to the field of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), addressing important research questions, including: the interrelation ...

This volume presents specific topics in diachronic Hispanic linguistics. These topics include: lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance, Arabisms, lexica...

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In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the psychology of language both in structural and functional terms. Topics inclu...