Psycholinguistics Introduction and Applications, Second Edition is the first textbook in psycholinguistics created for working language professionals and students in speechlanguage pathology and language education, as well as for students in psychology and linguistics. It provides a clear, lively introduction to research and ideas about how human brains process language in speaking, understanding, and reading. Within a unifying framework of the constant interplay of bottomup (sensory) and topdown (knowledge based) processing across all language uses and modalities, it is an integrated, selfcontained, fully updated account of psycholinguistics and its clinical and pedagogical applications. In this second edition, author Lise Menn is joined by leading brain researcher and aphasiologist, Nina Dronkers. The significantly revised brain chapter contains current findings on brain structure and function, including the roles of newly delineated fiber tracts and language areas outside Brocas and Wernickes areas. Five core chapters (language description brain structure and function pragmatic and semantic stages of speech production syntactic, morphological, phonological, and phonetic stages of speech production and experimental psycholinguistics) form the foundation for chapters, presenting classical and recent research on aphasia, first language development, reading, and second language learning. A final chapter demonstrates how linguistics and psycholinguistics can and should...

Binding: Paperback;552 pages; Publisher: Plural Publishing - IPSUK; Classification: N/A; Weight: 1077.99 g; Dimensions: N/A

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