1st Edition

Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics) Central Topics

By Alan Garnham Copyright 1985
292 Pages
by Psychology Press

288 Pages
by Psychology Press

288 Pages
by Psychology Press

Originally published in 1985, this title was an important new teaching text at the time. Alan Garnham focuses on current theories about the central cognitive aspects of language understanding, and attempts to reflect the emergence of cognitive science, an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of language and other cognitive processes. As well as describing psychological studies, the text... Read more

Acknowledgements  Preface  1 Introduction – how to study language understanding  2 The contribution of linguistics  3 Recognizing words  4 Parsing – the computation of syntactic structure  5 Introduction to the concept of meaning  6 Word meaning  7 Understanding discourse and text  8 The structure of the language processor  9 Language production and its relation to comprehension  10 Overview and future directions  References  Name index  Subject index

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Authored by Garnham, Alan