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The new edition of the popular introduction to the field of psycholinguistics, providing a solid foundation for understanding how people produce and comprehend language
Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science, Second Edition, presents a comprehensive overview of the cognitive processes involved in language acquisition, production, and comprehension. Balancing depth and accessibility, this bestselling textbook adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language that incorporates perspectives from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology, neurophysiology, and related fields. Student-friendly chapters explain the core components of speech, discuss how the brain receives and applies the basic building blocks of language, review leading research in psycholinguistics, describe the experimental evidence behind major theories, and more.
Fully updated to incorporate recent developments in the field, the second edition of Introduction to Psycholinguistics includes a new section devoted to language and cognitive disorders, two entirely new chapters on language as aspects of autism and schizophrenia, updated illustrations and learning objectives, and new coverage of language acquisition, the cognitive neuroscience of language, bilingualism, and sign language. This valuable textbook:
Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science, Second Edition, is an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate courses in psycholinguistics, language processing, and cognitive or communication disorders, as well as related courses in psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, language education, and computational linguistics.
Matthew Traxler is Professor of Psychology at the University of California-Davis, USA, where he teaches courses in Language and Cognition, Psycholinguistics, and General Psychology. He has served on the editorial board of The Journal of Memory and Language and as a consulting editor of The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. His research uses eye-tracking and ERP methods to investigate language processing and comprehension in healthy younger and older adults, deaf readers, and patients with schizophrenia.
List of Illustrations xiii
Acknowledgments xxi
Preface xxix
About the Companion Website xxxi
PART I: KEY CONCEPTS IN LANGUAGE PRODUCTION, COMPREHENSION, AND ACQUISITION 1
1 AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE SCIENCE 3
2 SPEECH PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION 39
3 WORD PROCESSING 83
4 SENTENCE PROCESSING 145
5 DISCOURSE PROCESSING 191
6 REFERENCE 245
7 NONLITERAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 271
8 DIALOGUE 309
9 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD 331
10 READING 377
11 BILINGUAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 421
12 SIGN LANGUAGE 455
PART II: LANGUAGE DISORDERS 489
13 APHASIA 491
14 DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER 529
15 LANGUAGE AND AUTISM 563
16 LANGUAGE DYSFUNCTION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA 605
Index 647
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