1st Edition

Experimental Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics) An Introduction

By Sam Glucksberg, Joseph H. Danks Copyright 1975
254 Pages
by Psychology Press

250 Pages
by Psychology Press

250 Pages
by Psychology Press

How is speech produced and understood in the context of everyday communication? First published in 1975, this book is considered one the best of the early books in this field. The task of psycholinguistics is to discover how people produce and comprehend speech. This encompasses virtually all aspects of psychology, including perceptual, conceptual, and social processes. The authors tried to... Read more

Preface  1 Communication systems and the general properties of human language  2 Speech sounds and speech perception  3 Word meanings and the mental dictionary  4 Sentences: syntax, meaning, and comprehension  5 Learning our first language  6 Dialects and schooling  7 Language, thought, and communication  References  Author index  Subject index

Biography

Sam Glucksberg, Joseph H. Danks