Psycholinguistics is the empirical and theoretical study of the mental faculty that underpins our consummate linguistic agility. These volumes reprint articles from a variety of international journals, book chapters and, in at least one case, a much cited technical report, taking a broad look at how the field has developed, from the turn of the 20th century through to the turn of the 21st. Since the 1960s, there has been a boom in research on how the human mind both produces and comprehends language; psycholinguistics represents a synthesis between linguistics on the one hand and psychology...

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection of papers and abstracts stems from the third meeting in the series of Sperlonga workshops on Cognitive Models of Speech Processing. It presents current research on the structure and organization of the mental lexicon, and on the processes that access that lexicon. The volume starts with discussion of issues in acquisition and consideration of questions such as, 'What is the relationship between vocabulary growth and the acquisition of syntax?', and, 'How does prosodic information, concerning the melodies and rhythms of the language, influence the processes of lexical and...