Full Description
This accessibly written and pedagogically rich text delivers the most comprehensive examination of its subject, carefully drawing on the most up-to-date research and covering a breadth of the central topics including communication, language acquisition, language processing, language disorders, speech, writing, and development. This book also examines an array of other progressive areas in the field neglected in similar works such as bilingualism, sign language as well as comparative communication.
Based on her globally-orientated research and academic expertise, author Shelia Kennison innovatively applies psycholinguistics to real-world examples through analysing the hetergenous traits of a wide variety of languages. With its engaging easy-to-understand prose, this text guides students gently and sequentially through an introduction to the subject. The book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in psycholinguistics.
Contents
1. The nature of language
2. Language versus non-human communication
3. Cognitive aspects of language processing
4. Visual word perception
5. Speech perception
6. Sentence processing
7. Discourse processing
8. Speech production
9. Conversation
10. Language development
11. Neural basis of language
12. Reading and reading development across languages
13. Signed languages: acquisition, production and comprehension
14. Multilingualism
15. Language disorders
