Psycholinguistics

Critical Concepts in Psychology

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  • Price: $2,245.00 $2,020.50
  • Hardback: 3288 pages
  • Published: March 2002
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-22990-6
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Series: Critical Concepts in Psychology.

These volumes reprint articles from a variety of international journals, book chapters and key technical reports, to take a broad look at how the field has developed from the turn of theTwentieth Century through to the turn of the twenty-first.

Since the 1960s, there has been a boom in research on how the human mind both produces and comprehends language. Psycholinguistics - as a product of this boom - represents a synthesis between linguistics and psychology.

The set covers the following topics:

* Language Acquisition

* The Mental Lexicon

* Sentence Processing

* Discourse and Meaning

* Spoken Language Production

* Reading

* Disorders of Language and Production

* Computational Models of Language Learning and Adult * Language Use

Table of Contents

Volume I:

1. From Sounds to Words

2. Accessing Lexical Representations

Volume II:

1. Adult Reading

2. Sentence Processing

3. Discourse Processing

Volume III:

1. Language Acquisition

2. Acquisition of Reading Skills

Volume IV:

1. Spoken Language Production

2. The Neurobiology of Normal and Disordered Language