Fernández / Cairns Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9277-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Fundamentals of Linguistics

Introducing the fundamental issues in psycholinguistics, this bookexplores the amazing story of the unconscious processes that takeplace when humans use language. It is an ideal text forundergraduates taking a first course in the study of language.
* Topics covered include the biological foundations of language;acquisition of first and second languages in children and adults;the mental lexicon; and speech production, perception, andprocessing
* Structured as an engaging narrative that takes the reader froman idea in the mind of a speaker to its comprehension in the mindof the hearer
* Reflects the latest empirical developments inpsycholinguistics, and is illustrated throughout with examples frombilingual as well as monolingual language processing, secondlanguage acquisition, and sign languages
* Student-friendly features include chapter-by-chapter studyquestions and discussion summaries; the appendix offers anexcellent overview of experimental designs in psycholinguistics,and prepares students for their own research
* Written by an internationally-regarded author team, drawing onforty years of experience in teaching psycholinguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fernández, Eva M.

Cairns, Helen Smith

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Prologue.
1. Beginning Concepts.
2. The Nature of Linguistic Competence.
3. The Biological Basis of Language.
4. The Acquisition of Language.
5. The Speaker: Producing Speech.
6. The Hearer: Speech Perception and Lexical Access.
7. The Hearer: Structural Processing.
8. Remembering Sentences, Processing Discourse, and HavingConversations.
Epilogue. Appendix: Experimental Designs inPsycholinguistics.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Eva M. Fernándezis Associate Professor at QueensCollege, City University of New York. She is also affiliated withthe CUNY Graduate Center's Programs in Linguistics and in Hispanicand Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, and currently directsQueens College's Center for Teaching and Learning.
Helen Smith Cairnsis Professor Emerita at Queens College,City University of New York. She is affiliated with the CUNYGraduate Programs in Linguistics and in Speech, Language, andHearing Sciences. Her research and scholarship are in the areas ofadult sentence processing and first language acquisition inchildren.