Psychology of Language: Theory and Applications

ISBN-13: 9781137545268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 536 str.

Shelia Kennison

Opis

The Psychology of Language delivers a broad coverage of topics in psychology, cognition and linguistics, using the most up-to-date examples of research, theoretical perspectives and examples of languages spoken around the world, to provide the reader with an introductory text to the field of psycholinguistics.

Spis treści

1. The nature of language 
2. Language versus non-human communication 
3. Cognitive aspects of language processing 
4. Visual word perception 
5. Speech perception 
6. Sentence processing 
7. Discourse processing 
8. Speech production 
9. Conversation 
10. Language development 
11. Neural basis of language 
12. Reading and reading development across languages 
13. Signed languages: acquisition, production and comprehension 
14. Multilingualism 
15. Language disorders

O autorze

Shelia M. Kennison is Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and bachelor’s degree in linguistics and psychology from Harvard University.  She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Psychonomic Society.  She has authored numerous works including academic journal articles and a textbook on the development of language. Her psycholinguistic research has focused on sentence processing in English as well as a variety of other languages, including Arabic, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Finnish.