Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science - Hardcover

Traxler, Matthew J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405198621 ISBN 13: 9781405198622

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 2011

Synopsis

This textbook offers a cutting edge introduction to psycholinguistics, exploring the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and use.

• 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

About this title

About the Author

Matt Traxler is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He edited The Handbook of Psycholinguistics (with Morton Ann Gernsbacher, 2006). He currently serves as associate editor on the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and Language and Linguistics Compass. He is also a consulting editor at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. When Dr. Traxler is not at work at the university, he will often be found stalking the wily rainbow trout.

From the Back Cover

This textbook offers a cutting-edge introduction to psycholinguistics, exploring the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and use. It provides students and faculty with:

• a step-by-step tour through language acquisition, production, and comprehension, from the word level to sentences and dialogue
• rich coverage of both theory and data, including in-depth descriptions of the experimental evidence behind theories
• a comprehensive review of research in bilingual language processing, sign language, reading, and the neurological basis of language production and comprehension
• perspectives on the subject from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology, and neurophysiology
• a full program of resources for instructors and students, including review exercises, a test bank, and lecture slides, available at www.wiley.com/go/traxler

Covering the full spectrum of language representations and processes, and drawing on the most current research available from a range of scientific perspectives, this is the best introduction to the psychology of language available today.

From the Inside Flap

This textbook offers a cutting-edge introduction to psycholinguistics, exploring the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and use. It provides students and faculty with: 

• a step-by-step tour through language acquisition, production, and comprehension, from the word level to sentences and dialogue
• rich coverage of both theory and data, including in-depth descriptions of the experimental evidence behind theories
• a comprehensive review of research in bilingual language processing, sign language, reading, and the neurological basis of language production and comprehension
• perspectives on the subject from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology, and neurophysiology
• a full program of resources for instructors and students, including review exercises, a test bank, and lecture slides, available at www.wiley.com/go/traxler 

Covering the full spectrum of language representations and processes, and drawing on the most current research available from a range of scientific perspectives, this is the best introduction to the psychology of language available today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405198621
• ISBN 13: 9781405198622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568