1st Edition
Handbook of Applied Psycholinguistics Major Thrusts of Research and Theory
Edited By S. Rosenberg
Copyright 1982
640 Pages
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Psychology Press
608 Pages
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Psychology Press
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First published in 1982. The chapters of this handbook contain critical integrative reviews of research and theory in the major areas of the field of applied psycholinguistics, the field in which applied problems of language and communicative functioning and development are approached from the standpoint of basic research and theory in psycholinguistics and related areas of cognitive psychology.... Read more
Introduction; 1: Applied Psycholinguistics: Introduction, Foundations and Overview; Reading, Writing and Language Learning; 2: Theoretical Issues in the Study of Word Recognition: The Unit of Perception Controversy Reexamined; 3: Psycholinguistic Processes in Writing; 4: Second-Language Learning and Bilingualism in Children and Adults; Discourse Processes; 5: Prose Comprehension in Natural and Experimental Settings: The Theory and Its Practical Implications; Disorders of First-Language Development; 6: The Nature of Specific Language Impairment in Children; 7: The Language of the Mentally Retarded: Development, Processes, and Intervention; 8: Language in Infantile Autism; 9: The Language Development of Deaf Children and Youth; Adult Language Disorders; 10: A Psycholinguistic Assessment of Adult Aphasia; 11: Adult Schizophrenic Language
Biography
Sheldon Rosenberg Department of Psychology and Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, University of Illinois at Chicago.
