"By examining how our brains process language and find patterns, the intricacies of the language system itself, and even scientific breakthroughs in computer science and artificial intelligence, Keeping Those Words in Mind brings a brand new and interdisciplinary explanation for our ability to extract meaning from language"--
When do human beings begin producing gestures and how do they evolve throughout our cognitive and social development? This book investigates the rich and complex ways in which gesture precedes language development and then is used in conjunction with language across the lifespan.
What do we know about the development of language, and what research will improve diagnosis of disorders and ensure effective intervention? Explore the answers in this in-depth study of language, both typical and atypical language development, and the evolutionary, biological, sociocultural, and cognitive factors that affect literacy acquisition.
By understanding the processes that underlie language ability, we can help develop more effective ways to teach people to read and make the books they read easier to understand. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic issues in psycholinguistic research, including its history and the methodologies typically employed in research.
This practical manual introduces readers to key principles in the study of language production and comprehension. It reviews experimental methods for generating speech data, as well as strategies to manage and interpret this data.
Informed by the latest research in the field of second language acquisition and written entirely in Spanish, this book responds to the central questions that lie at the heart of learning Spanish as a second or foreign language. Each chapter examines the linguistic challenges and pitfalls involved in Spanish-language learning.
The psychology of language, or psycholinguistics is a vast, fascinating and rapidly growing field. This six-volume collection provides a modern, self-contained and accessible overview of the subject, presenting both sides of the major debates. The papers will enable the reader to gather a balanced view of modern psycholinguistics, identify the key issues and references, and be familiar with all modern investigative techniques. Psycholinguistics is organized into the following parts: Part One: Production Part Two: Recognition and Comprehension Part Three: Learning to Read Part Four: Representation Part Five: Development Containing the most seminal, cutting-edge and field-defining papers in the field, this major work should prove an invaluable addition to any library with a collection in psychological science, and whose faculty and students wish to learn more about this historically significant discipline.
This textbook examines themes in the psychology of language. Rather th an covering only the formal-structural aspects of language, it provides a broad view of the study of language across the various perspectives, focusing on relationships between language and human psychological processes. This book provides an introduction to key topics from language structure and processing, semantics and cognitive science, to conversational analysis, reading and writing, power relations in communication and postmodern psychology. It explores language by considering three themes: thinking - the cognitive processes of self-communication; talk - where the emphasis is on everyday conversational behaviour; and text - including the study of reading and writing. A framework is developed by looking at key topics which link the themes together, providing an understanding of the relationship between language and communication processes. This text should be valuable to students on all courses addressing psychology and language, and particularly in such areas as cognitive and social psychology and psycholinguistics.
An up-to-date study of language use & commun ication skills in alternative populations, this text address es questions on the essence of language, how it is shaped by normal constraints, and how it can be rehabilitated when co nstraints are abnormal. '
