Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics
Published on 2. August 2007
Book
Hardback
880 pages
978-0-19-856897-1 (ISBN)
Description
The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process. The young science of psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and representations underlying human language. This interdisciplinary field has seen massive developments over the past decade, with a broad expansion of the research base, and the incorporation of new experimental techniques such as brain imaging and computational modelling. The result is that real progress is being made in the understanding of the key components of language in the mind. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics brings together the views of 75 leading researchers in psycholinguistics to provide a comprehensive and authoritative review of the current state of the art in psycholinguistics. With almost 50 chapters written by experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled. The contributors are eminent in a wide range of fields, including psychology, linguistics, human memory, cognitive neuroscience, bilingualism, genetics, development and neuropsychology.
Their contributions are organised into six themed sections, covering word recognition, the mental lexicon, comprehension and discourse, language production, language development, and perspectives on psycholinguistics. The breadth of coverage, coupled with the accessibility of the short chapter format should make the handbook essential reading for both students and researchers in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neuroscience.
Their contributions are organised into six themed sections, covering word recognition, the mental lexicon, comprehension and discourse, language production, language development, and perspectives on psycholinguistics. The breadth of coverage, coupled with the accessibility of the short chapter format should make the handbook essential reading for both students and researchers in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neuroscience.
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...an authoritative and exhaustive account of the state of the art in psycholinguistics...an indispensible resource for all those interested in language processes. The Psychologist ...a comprehensive book that adeptly covers research in psycholinguistics from an array of disciplines and study techniques...for those with the requisite background and interest, this will be an extensive and worthwhile reference. Doody's NotesMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
col. plate, 67 Schaubilder, 11 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
67 figures, 5 in colour; 11 black & white photos; 4 page colour plate section
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 52 mm
Weight
1666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-856897-1 (9780198568971)
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Content
PART I - WORD RECOGNITION; 1. Representations and representational specficity in speech perception and spoken word recognition; 2. Audiovisual speech perception and word recogniton; 3. Eight questions about spoken word recognition; 4. Statistical and connnectionist models of speech perception and word recognition; 5. Visual word recognition; 6. Eye movements and visual word recogntion; 7. Speech and spelling interaction: the interdependence of visual and auditory word recognition; 8. Brain processes of word recognition as revealed by neurophysiological imaging; 9. Word recognition in aphasia; PART II - THE MENTAL LEXICON; 10. Representation and processing of lexically ambiguous words; 11. Morphological processes in language comprehension; 12. Semantic representation; 13. Conceptual structure; 14. Connectionist models of reading; 15. The mulitlingual lexicon; 16. The biocognition of the mental lexicon; PART III - COMPREHENSION AND DISCOURSE; 17. Syntactic parsing; 18. Spoken language comprehension: insights from eye movements; 19. Eye movements and on-line comprehension processes; 20. Inference processing in discourse comprehension; 21. Language and action: creating sensible combinations of ideas; 22. Bilingual sentence processing; 23. Event-related brain potential (ERP) studies of sentence processing; 24. Neuroimaging studies of sentence and discourse comprehension; 25. Sentence level deficits in aphasia; PART IV - LANGUAGE PRODUCTION; 26. Alignment in dialogue; 27. Grammatical encoding; 28. Word form retrieval in language production; 29. Speech production; 30. The problem of speech patterns in time; 31. Connectionist principles in theories of speech production; 32. Cross-linguistic research on language production; 33. Brain imaging studies of language production; 34. Language production in aphasia; PART V - LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; 35. The perceptual foundations of phonological development; 36. Statistical learning in infant language development; 37. Word learning; 38. Concept formation and language development: count nouns and object kinds; 39. Learning to parse and its implications for language acquisition; 40. Learning to read; 41. Developmental dyslexia; 42. Genetics of language disorders: clinical conditions, phenotypes and genes; PART VI - PERSPECTIVES; 43. The psycholinguistics of signed andspoken languages: how biology affects processing; 44. Spoken language processing by machine; 45. Relating structure and time in linguistics and psycholinguistics; 46. Working memory and language; 47. Language and mirror neurons; 48. The evolution of language: a comparative perspective; 49. Thinking across the boundaries: psycholinguistic perspectives