2nd Edition
Psycholinguistics Language, Mind and World
464 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
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How do we learn to produce and comprehend speech? How does language relate to thought? This second edition of the successful text Psycholinguistics- Language, Mind and World considers the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain as well as various aspects of society and culture. Current issues and research topics are presented in an in-depth manner, although little or no... Read more
PART 1. FIRST-LANGUAGE LEARNING1. How Children Learn Language2. The Deaf and Language: Sign, Oral, Written3. Reading Principles and Teaching4. Wild and Isolated Children and the Critical Age Issue for Language Learners5. Animals and Language LearningPART 2. SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNING6. Children and Adults in Second-Language Learning7. Second-Language Teaching Methods8. Bilingualism, Cognition, Transfer and Learning StrategiesPART 3. LANGUAGE, MIND AND BRAIN9. Language, Thought and Culture10. Where does Language Knowledge Come From? Intelligence, Innate Language Ideas, Behaviour?11. Language and the BrainPART 4. MENTAL GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE PREOCESSING12. Language Criteria for Assessing Grammars13. Natural Grammar: A 'God's Truth' Grammar Based on the Primacy of Speech Comprehension
Biography
Danny D. Steinberg is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language, Surugadai University, Japan. Hiroshi Nagata is with Okayama University and David Aline is with Kanagawa University.
