Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

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1. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Processing

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Wolfram Hinzen, David Poeppel

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   The issue presents a selection of approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of semantic processing. The term ‘semantics’ covers a range of approaches: perception-based conceptual structures, the impact of concepts such as animacy on syntactically determined meaning, the unification of incoming...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Psychology Press
2. Biological Foundations of Language Production

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Michele Miozzo, Brenda Rapp

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   The ever-expanding repertoire of neurocognitive methods has provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate language production. The research reported in this volume demonstrates the usefulness of these methods for advancing our understanding of the neural bases of language production. ...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Psychology Press
3. Morphology in Language Comprehension, Production and Acquisition

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Raymond Bertram, Jukka Hyönä, Matti Laine

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Does darkness lead to happiness? Is there corn in the corner? These are questions that make - to some extent - semantically sense, but for researchers interested in the role of morphology in word processing they make morphologically sense as well. This Special Issue on Morphological Processing is...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Psychology Press
4. Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Duane G. Watson, Michael Wagner, Edward Gibson

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Prosody is the rhythm, stress and intonation of speech, which encodes information that is not encoded by the syntax or words of an utterance. Prosody is critical for parsing speech, constructing syntactic structure, and building a representation of the conversational discourse model, among other...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Psychology Press
5. Processing the Chinese Language

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Xiaolin Zhou, Zheng Ye, Him Cheung, Hsuan-Chih Chen

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   The past decade witnesses not only dramatic economic changes but also exponential developments in science in China. Given its unique structural properties, the Chinese language provides challenging opportunities to explore both the language-specific neuro-cognitive processes during communication...

   Published September 20th 2009 by Psychology Press
6. Language Production: Sublexical, Lexical, and Supralexical Information

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Jens Boelte, Matthew Goldrick, Pienie Zwitserlood

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Language production involves the translation of thought into speech, as instantiated by a whole range of mental operations involved in conceptualization, formulation and articulation. This special issue on language production offers a fine sample of the latest research into the various processes...

   Published June 14th 2009 by Psychology Press
7. Language Production Across the Life Span

   A Special Issue of Language And Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Antje Meyer, Linda Wheeldon

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Most current theories of lexical access in speech production are designed to capture the behaviour of young adults – typically college students. However, young adults represent a minority of the world’s speakers. For theories of speech production, the question arises of how the young adults’ speech...

   Published April 8th 2009 by Psychology Press
8. Speech Accompanying-Gesture

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Sotaro Kita

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   When we speak, we often spontaneously produce gestures. Such gestures are an integral part of face-to-face verbal communication. The relationship between speech and gesture is the theme of this Special Issue. The articles cover a wide range of issues: cultural differences, language and gesture...

   Published January 21st 2009 by Psychology Press
9. Advances in Morphological Processing

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Ram Frost, Jonathan Grainger, Manuel Carreiras

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Ten years ago, a group of researchers investigating the processing of morphological information met in the south of France to discuss how morphology affects word recognition, perception and production from a cross-linguistic perspective. This special issue is the fourth volume to expose the results...

   Published November 29th 2008 by Psychology Press
10. Language Production: Third International Workshop on Language Production

    A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

    Edited by Matthew Goldrick, Albert Costa, Niels Schiller

    Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

    This issue focuses on selected contributions to the 2006 Third International Workshop on Language Production. A hallmark of this series of workshops is to bring together researchers utilizing a variety of methodologies across a wide range of processing domains to address critical issues in...

    Published June 29th 2008 by Psychology Press