List of Illustrations xiiiAcknowledgments xxiPreface xxixAbout the Companion Website xxxiPART I: KEY CONCEPTS IN LANGUAGE PRODUCTION, COMPREHENSION, AND ACQUISITION 11 AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE SCIENCE 32 SPEECH PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION 393 WORD PROCESSING 834 SENTENCE PROCESSING 1455 DISCOURSE PROCESSING 1916 REFERENCE 2457 NONLITERAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 2718 DIALOGUE 3099 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD 33110 READING 37711 BILINGUAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 42112 SIGN LANGUAGE 455PART II: LANGUAGE DISORDERS 48913 APHASIA 49114 DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER 52915 LANGUAGE AND AUTISM 56316 LANGUAGE DYSFUNCTION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA 605Index 647
MATTHEW J. TRAXLER is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, USA, where he teaches courses in Language and Cognition, Psycholinguistics, and General Psychology. He has served in various editorial capacities at the Journal of Memory and Language, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Language and Linguistics Compass, the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Memory and Cognition. His research uses eye-tracking and ERP methods to investigate language processing and comprehension in healthy younger and older adults, deaf readers, and patients with schizophrenia.