Psychology of language

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Psychology of language

David W. Carroll

Brooks/Cole Pub., c1994

2nd ed

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Note

Bibliography: p. 409-442

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume covers developments and controversies in psycholinguistics and sets them in an historical context. It examines the main lines of classic and contemporary research, with possible implications for application. Everyday examples are used, and fundamental questions are approached from a variety of perspectives, including different theoretical positions, various research strategies and classical versus more contemporary research.

Table of Contents

  • General issues: Introduction - themes of psycholinguistics
  • Linguistic principles
  • Psychological mechanisms. Language comprehension: Perception of language
  • The internal of lexicon
  • Sentence com-prehension and memory
  • Discourse comprehension and memory. Language production and conversational inter-action: Production of speech and language
  • Conversational interaction. Language acquistition: Early acquisitions
  • Later acquistions
  • Processes of acqui-sition. Language in context: Language and the brain
  • Language and culture.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA24233244
  • ISBN
    • 0534213006
  • LCCN
    93026969
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Pacific Grove, Calif.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 461 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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