Psycholinguistics : an introduction to the psychology of language / Donald J. Foss, David T. Hakes.

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Main Authors: Foss, Donald J., 1940-, Hakes, David T., 1934- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ℗♭1978.
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Table of Contents:
  • The study of language: linguistic diversity ; linguistic universals ; the nature of language ; the nature of linguistic knowledge ; linguistic performance
  • Aspects of linguistic competence: phonology ; syntax ; semantics
  • Perceiving speech: the sounds of speech ; speech perception phenomena and speech cues ; models of speech perception processes
  • The process of comprehension: the problem of comprehension ; comprehension processes ; sentence structures in comprehension processing ; the problem of ambiguity ; theories of comprehension processing
  • Memory and comprehension: sentences and mental logic ; models of memory representation ; some effects of general knowledge on comprehension and representation ; representation of lexical items
  • Sentence production: what speakers say ; from thought to language; structural factors in sentence production ; speech errors and sentence production ; a model of sentence production.
  • Producing speech after it is planned: speech production mechanisms ; articulatory dynamics
  • the control of the speech motor system ; temporal patterning (rhythm) in production ; the development of the speech production system
  • Language development in the child: learning to produce utterances: one word at a time ; the acquisition of structured utterances
  • Language development in the child: acquisition processes and learning to understand utterances: porcesses involved in language acquisition ; the role of language itself in language acquisition ; a theory of language acquisition ; an alternative theory ; the development of word meanings
  • Language development in the child: becoming linguistically competent: the development of communication skills ; the development of "metalinguistic" abilities ; learning to read
  • Reading: writing systems ; some visual aspects of reading ; the relation between listening and reading.
  • evidence concerning phonological recoding ; Lexical access ; reading rates again ; a model of reading
  • Language and the brain: the study of the brain-language relationship ; aphasia and the localization of language functions ; localization of language functions ; species specificity
  • language and thought in the context of linguistic diversity and linguistic universals: linguistic diversity ; linguistic diversity and cognitive categories ; thought and language ; universals again.