The Psychology of Language
From Data To Theory
2nd Edition
Published on 23. August 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-86377-867-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Psychology of Language (2nd Edition) is a thorough revision and update of the popular first edition. Comprehensive and contemporary, it contains all the student needs to know on the topic, presenting difficult material in a lively and accessible way. There is coverage of all the core topics in language in the undergraduate curriculum and the author interweaves evidence from the various approaches including cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and connectionist modelling. This edition includes expanded coverage of many topics including reading development, bilingualism, and the relation between language and memory.
Reviews / Votes
"The book provides a comprehensive review of this complex field. It's a certain choice for undergraduate students. It also points the more advanced student towards a radical new agenda for psycholinguistics, in which neurological evidence will play a key role."Alan Kennedy, University of Dundee"Harley's second edition covers psycholinguistic research with impressive breadth and depth, making it well-suited for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Remarkably clear and concise summaries of background material from linguistics and cognitive psychology should make psycholinguistic research and theories accessible to students with little background in either." Zenzi Griffin, Stanford University
"Dr Harley provides a very readable introduction to the issues, methods, and theories which frame the study of language from a psychological perspective. He has done an impressive job in writing such a comprehensive introduction to the field of psycholinguistics." Kathryn Kohnert, University of Minnesota
"The Psychology of Language (Second Edition) clearly integrates theory and research into a format that is clear and accessible by readers at the undergraduate and graduate levels ... the work is comprehensive, interesting, and challenging, and should stimulate critical thinking and further research by students. Highly recommended for courses dealing with language and psycholinguistics." Jeanette Altarriba, University of Albany, State University of New York
"It covers an impressive range of topics without abstracting away from individual findings, thereby not only providing information about many different research methods, but also enabling the reader to understand why the field's theoretical landscape looks exactly the way it does." Barbara Kaup, Florida State University
More details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Weight
1225 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86377-867-4 (9780863778674)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
10/1995
Psychology Press Ltd
€38.54
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Person
2Trevor Harley carried out his PhD work at the University of Cambridge on speech errors and what they tell us about how we plan language. He has been Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Dundee since 2003. His research interests include speech production, how we represent meaning, and the effects of ageing on language.
Content
Preface. How to use this book. SECTION A: INTRODUCTION. 1. The study of language. Introduction. What is language and how did it originate? The history and methods of psycholinguistics. Themes and controversies in modern psycholinguistics. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. 2. Describing language. Introduction. Linguistic approaches to syntax. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. SECTION B: THE BIOLOGICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BASES OF LANGUAGE. 3. The foundations of language. Introduction. Do animals have language? The biological basis of language. The cognitive basis of language: The cognition hypothesis. The social basis of language. What is the relation between language and thought? Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. 4. Language development. Introduction. The driving forces of language development. Phonological development. Semantic development. Early syntactic development. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. 5. Bilingualism and second language acquisition. Introduction. Bilingualism. Second language acquisition. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. SECTION C: WORD RECOGNITION. 6. Recognizing visual words. Introduction. Methods and findings. Meaning-based facilitation of visual word recognition. Morphology: Processing complex words. Models of visual word recognition. Lexical ambiguity. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. 7. Reading. Introduction. A preliminary model of reading. The processes of normal reading. The neuropsychology of adult reading disorders: Acquired dyslexia. Models of word naming. Learning to read and spell. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. 8. Understanding speech. Introduction. Recognizing speech. Models of speech recognition. TRACE. The neuropsychology of spoken word recognition. Summary. Some questions to think about. SECTION D: MEANING AND BEYOND. 9. Understanding the structure of sentences. Introduction. Coping with structural ambiguity. Early work on parsing. Processing structural ambiguity. Gaps, traces, and unbounded dependencies. The neuropsychology of parsing. Summary. Some questions to think about. 10. Word meaning. Introduction. Classic approaches to semantics. Semantic networks. Semantic features. Family resemblance and classification. Combining concepts. Processing figurative language. The neuropsychology of semantics. Connectionist approaches to semantics. Summary. Some questions to think about. 11. Comprehension. Introduction. Memory for text and inferences. Reference, coreference, and ambiguity. Models of text representation and processing. Individual differences in comprehension skills. Pragmatics. The structure of conversation. The neuropsychology of text and discourse processing. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. SECTION E: PRODUCTION AND OTHER ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE. 12. Language production. Introduction. Speech errors. Syntactic planning. Lexicalization. Phonological encoding. The analysis of hesitations. The neuropsychology of speech production. Writing and agraphia. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. 13. The structure of the language system. Introduction. What are the modules of language? How many lexicons are there? Language and short-term memory. Summary. Some questions to think about. Further reading. 14. New directions. Introduction. Themes in psycholinguistics revisited. Some growth areas? Conclusion. Further reading. Appendix: Connectionism. Interactive activation models. Back-propagation. Further reading. Glossary. Example of analysis of a sentence. References. Author index. Subject index.