Author : Willem Levelt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199653666
How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? This book provides a fascinating personal history of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created the discipline we call psycholinguistics.
Author : Joseph F. Kess
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027277486
This textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. It is directed at filling the reading needs of courses in departments of linguistics and of psychology, presenting an integrated overview of the ways in which both disciplines have investigated the learning, production, comprehension, storage and recall of natural languages. Also detailed are those research topics that have captured the interests of psycholinguists over the past few decades. Some current topics included are modularity vs interactionism, the role of parsing strategies in sentence comprehension, and accessing the mental lexicon in word recognition. Earlier topics that have attracted considerable energy not so long ago, such as sound symbolism and linguistic relativity, are also investigated in some detail. Psycholinguistics is an enquiry into the psychology of language, but the facts of language are what generate theories about why language is learned, produced and processed the way it is. Thus there is a wide array of examples from the languages of the world, intended to provide a feeling for what the nature and range of human language are like.
Author : Robert W. Rieber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1468436449
The fact that one would contemplate publication of a book such as this indicates both the maturity and the growth of activity that have taken place in the field of psycholinguistics over the past few decades. More over, the fact that psycholinguists and/or scholars of the history of ideas are interested in the history of their subject clearly demonstrates that much has been accomplished, and the time is indeed ripe for the reassess ment of whence we have come. In addition, perhaps this interest in our historical past suggests that psycholinguistics is at a critical stage in its development. There are many scholars who believe that this critical stage manifests itself primarily in a search for a new paradigm. It would seem only reasonable to suggest that when members of a profession are search ing for something new, more than likely they will take time to reflect on the past in the hope that it will facilitate the fulfillment of their quest. This book as such reflects a wide-ranging search for historical roots over a millenium of research in the psychology of language and thought. Furthermore, it also reflects an attempt to open the context by introducing the broader perspectives of the history of ideas and the history of science together with their reassessment of the method of science motivated from within psychology itself.
Author : John Field
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415276009
A comprehensive introduction to psycholinguistic theory with activities, study questions, commentaries and key readings.
Author : H. Wind Cowles
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826115624
"[This book] opens a window into the process of psycholinguistics, pulling together classic and cutting-edge research from a number of different areas to provide an engaging and insightful introduction to the study of language processing. Psycholinguistics 101 is sure to hook students with its enthusiasm as it provides a clear introduction to the modern research in this field." Maria Polinsky, PhD Harvard University How is language represented in the brain? How do we understand ambiguous language? How carefully do we really listen to speakers? How is sign language similar to and different from spoken language? How does having expertise in multiple languages work? Answering these questions and more, Psycholinguistics 101 provides an introduction to how language is stored and processed by mind and brain. The study of psycholinguistics incorporates interdisciplinary research from psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuroscience, and cognitive science. By understanding the processes that underlie language ability, we can help develop more effective ways to teach languages and understand differences in reading abilities. This book introduces the reader to the basic issues in psycholinguistic research, including its history and the methodologies typically employed in these studies. Key topics discussed include information flow, language representation, and sign language.
Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199585849
Leading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore the linguistic traditions in different parts of the world, examine how work in linguistics has influenced other fields, and look at how it has been practically applied
Author : Michael Garman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521276412
An introduction to psycholinguistics - the study of human language processing - which deals with the central area of the linguistically mature, monolingual adult's language abilities.
Author : Lia Formigari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027245614
Most of the papers collected in this volume concentrate on the history of linguistic ideas in France and Italy in the modern period (from the Renaissance to the present day). Some of them are specifically focused on the links between the two traditions of reflection on language.The contributions have a common methodological outlook: the authors do not believe that the history of linguistic ideas is a separate activity from research on language or that it is marginal with respect to the latter. On the contrary, they are convinced that in contemporary research into language we can still discern the influence positive or negative as this may be of factors deriving from the (sometimes distant) past. A historical analysis of these factors whether it rejects them as superseded, or redefines them in order to elicit the fruitful suggestions they may still contain has a contribution to make to the progress of theory.
Author : Matthew Traxler
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1197 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080466419
With Psycholinguistics in its fifth decade of existence, the second edition of the Handbook of Psycholinguistics represents a comprehensive survey of psycholinguistic theory, research and methodology, with special emphasis on the very best empirical research conducted in the past decade. Thirty leading experts have been brought together to present the reader with both broad and detailed current issues in Language Production, Comprehension and Development. The handbook is an indispensible single-source guide for professional researchers, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, university and college teachers, and other professionals in the fields of psycholinguistics, language comprehension, reading, neuropsychology of language, linguistics, language development, and computational modeling of language. It will also be a general reference for those in neighboring fields such as cognitive and developmental psychology and education. Provides a complete account of psycholinguistic theory, research, and methodology 30 of the field's foremost experts have contributed to this edition An invaluable single-source reference
Author : Matthew J. Traxler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1444344579
This textbook offers a cutting edge introduction to psycholinguistics, exploring the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and use. Provides a step-by-step tour through language acquisition, production, and comprehension, from the word level to sentences and dialogue Incorporates both theory and data, including in-depth descriptions of the experimental evidence behind theories Incorporates a comprehensive review of research in bilingual language processing, sign language, reading, and the neurological basis of language production and comprehension Approaches the subject from a range of perspectives, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology, and neurophysiology Includes a full program of resources for instructors and students, including review exercises, a test bank, and lecture slides, available online at www.wiley.com/go/traxler
