Introduction To Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science

Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science

This textbook offers a cutting edge introduction topsycholinguistics, exploring the cognitive processes underlyinglanguage acquisition and use.  Provides a step-by-step tour through language acquisition,production, and comprehension, from the word level to sentences anddialogueIncorporates both theory and data, including in-depthdescriptions of the experimental evidence behind theoriesIncorporates a comprehensive review of research in bilinguallanguage processing, sign language, reading, and the neurologicalbasis of language production and comprehensionApproaches the subject from a range of perspectives, includingpsychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology,and neurophysiologyIncludes a full program of resources for instructors andstudents, including review exercises, a test bank, and lectureslides, available online at www.wiley.com/go/traxler