Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics

By Helen Smith Cairns and Eva M. Fernández

Book Overview

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, andprocessingStructured as an engaging narrative that takes the reader froman idea in the mind of a speaker to its comprehension in the mindof the hearerReflects the latest empirical developments inpsycholinguistics, and is illustrated throughout with examples frombilingual as well as monolingual language processing, secondlanguage acquisition, and sign languagesStudent-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 researchWritten by an internationally-regarded author team, drawing onforty years of experience in teaching psycholinguistics

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140519152X
• ISBN13: 9781405191524
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"