More Info About the Book
Table of Contents
Sample Pages
About the Author
Inspection Copy
Routledge Contacts

   Book Jacket

Table of Contents

 
A Introduction B Development C Exploration D Extension
1
Psycholinguistics: what is it? Data in Psycholinguistics The language studied in Psycholinguistics The goals of Psycholinguistics (George Miller)
2
Language, speech and communication Animal communication Talking apes The evolution of speech (Ib Ulbaek)
3
Language and the brain Localising language in the brain Lateralisation in the brain Differentiated syntactic processes Localisation as competition (Terrence Deacon)
4
'Knowing' a word Lexical form The meaning of 'meaning' The packaging task (Jean Aitchison)
5
Lexical storage and lexical access Word association Models of lexical retrieval Lexical processing (Kenneth Forster)
6
An information processing approach Bottom up and top down processing Memory and language Working Memory (Robert Logie)
7
Writing systems Writing at word level The stages of writing The role of production factors in writing ability (Carl Bereiter & Marlene Scardamalia)
8
Decoding in reading Eye movements in reading Skilled and unskilled readers Constructing meaning: the role of decoding (Philip Gough & Sebastian Wren)
9
Issues in listening Categorical perception Listening in real time Rhythmic cues to speech segmentation (Anne Cutler & Sally Butterfield)
10
Characteristics of speech Stages in the speaking process A model of speaking Self-monitoring (Willem Levelt)
11
Long Term Memory and Schema Theory Meaning representations Inference Understanding anaphoric devices (Nicola Yuill & Jane Oakhill)
12
Special circumstances Language disorders Deafness; a small scale research study Grammatical deficits (Dorothy Bishop)
Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group plc