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More About This Title Introduction to Psycholinguistics - UnderstandingLanguage Science
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- Provides a step-by-step tour through language acquisition, production, and comprehension, from the word level to sentences and dialogue
- Incorporates both theory and data, including in-depth descriptions of the experimental evidence behind theories
- Incorporates a comprehensive review of research in bilingual language processing, sign language, reading, and the neurological basis of language production and comprehension
- Approaches the subject from a range of perspectives, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology, and neurophysiology
- Includes a full program of resources for instructors and students, including review exercises, a test bank, and lecture slides, available online at www.wiley.com/go/traxler
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Acknowledgments
Preface
1. An Introduction to Language Science
Language Characteristics
Grammar, Language Origins, and Non-Human Communication Systems
Language and Thought
A Description of the Language Processing System
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
2. Speech Production and Comprehension
Speech Production
Articulation
Foreign Accent Syndrome Revisited
Speech Perception
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
3. Word Processing
The Anatomy of a Word: How We Mentally Represent Word Form
Lexical Semantics
Lexical Access
Lexical Ambiguity Resolution
The Neural Basis of Lexical Representation and Lexical Access
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
4 Sentence Processing
Models of Parsing: Two-Stage Models
Models of Parsing: Constraint-based Models
Interim Summary
Argument Structure Hypothesis
Limitations, Criticisms, and Some Alternative Parsing Theories
Parsing Long-Distance Dependencies
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
5 Discourse Processing
Construction–Integration Theory
The Structure Building Framework
The Event Indexing Model
Causation, Cohesion and Coherence in Discourse Encoding and Memory
The Role of General World Knowledge in Discourse Processing
Building Situation Models
Inferencing: Memory-Based Account of Discourse Processing: Minimalist vs.Constructionist Inferencing
The Neural Basis of Discourse Comprehension
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
6 Reference
Characteristics of Referents That Make Co-Reference Easier
Characteristics of Anaphors That Make Co-Reference Easier
The Relationship between an Anaphor and Possible Referents Affects Anaphor Resolution
Binding Theory
Psycholinguistic Theories of Anaphoric Reference
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
7 Non-Literal Language Processing
Types of Non-Literal Language
The Standard Pragmatic View
Metaphor
Why Metaphor?
Metonymy and Underspecification
Idioms and Frozen Metaphors
Embodiment and the Interpretation of Non-Literal Language
The Neural Basis of Non-Literal Language Interpretation
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
8 Dialogue
Gricean Maxims
Dialogue is Interactive
Common Ground
Audience Design
Effects of Listeners’ Perspective-Taking on Comprehension
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
9 Language Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
Prenatal Learning
Infant Perception and Categorization of Phonemes
Solving the Segmentation Problem
Statistical Learning and Speech Segmentation
Interim Summary
Learning Word Meanings
Acquisition of Morphological and Syntactic Knowledge
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
10 Reading
Speed Reading?
Eye Movement Control and Reading
Oculomotor and Cognitive Control Theories of Reading
Cognitive Processing in Reading I
Cognitive Processing in Reading II: Visual Word Processing
Dyslexia: Single-Deficit Models
Dyslexia: Dual-Route and Single-Route Explanations
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
11 Bilingual Language Processing
Mary Potter and the Secrets of Bilingualism
Languages Are Simultaneously Active During Comprehension and Production
Models of Language Control in Bilingual Speakers
Bilingualism and Executive Control
Teaching Techniques and Individual Differences in Second Language Learning
The Neural Bases of Bilingualism
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
12 Sign Language
Characteristics of Signed Languages
Lexical Access in Sign Language
Sign Language Acquisition and Language Evolution
Reading in Deaf Signers
The Neural Basis of Sign Language: Left-Hemisphere Contributionsto Production and Comprehension
Does the Right Hemisphere Play a Special Role in Sign Language?
The Effects of Deafness and Learning Sign Language on Cognitive Processing
Cochlear Implants
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
13 Aphasia
Aphasiology: What Happens to Language When the Brain Is Damaged?
Broca’s Aphasia, Wernicke’s Aphasia, and Syntactic Parsing
Treatment and Recovery from Aphasia
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
14 Right-Hemisphere Language Function
Speech Perception and Production
Word Processing
Right-Hemisphere Contributions to Discourse Comprehension and Production
Right-Hemisphere Contributions to Non-Literal Language Understanding
What You Can Do with One Hemisphere
Why Lateralization?
Summary and Conclusions
Test Yourself
Name Index
Subject Index
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- Victor Ferreira, University of California, San Diego
This is the psycholinguistics textbook we've all been waiting for. Traxler has brought us into the 21st century.
He surveys the field with depth, breadth, and most definitely wit. Students will find the text quite accessible, and instructors will appreciate the rigorous content.
- Morton Ann Gernsbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison
It's all here, from Nim to Noam, and "the horse raced past the barn" to the elephant in Groucho's pants. Traxler covers the subject matter of modern psycholinguistics with thoroughness and panache.
- Mark S. Seidenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Engaging and witty, this is a refreshing and informative textbook on the psychology of language that will appeal to students and teachers alike.
- Gerry Altmann, University of York
