The Psychology of Language / From Data to Theory
- Psychology Press, 1996
- 482
Language occupies a central role in our lives. Psycholinguistics, the study of the psychology of language, explores how we speak, read, remember, learn and understand language. Preface, What is Language? What is Psycholinguistics?, The Speech System and Spoken Word Recognition, Visual Word Recognition, Word Pronunciation and Dyslexia, Syntax and Parsing, Semantics, Comprehension: Understanding and Remembering the Message, Speech Production and Aphasia, The Structure of the Language System, Language and Thought and the Precursors of Language, Language Development, New Directions, Appendix: Connectionism, References, Author and Subject Index.