Introducing the fundamental issues in psycholinguistics, this bookexplores the amazing story of the unconscious processes that takeplace when humans use language. It is an ideal text forundergraduates taking a first course in the study of language.
* Topics covered include the biological foundations of language;acquisition of first and second languages in children and adults;the mental lexicon; and speech production, perception, andprocessing
* Structured as an engaging narrative that takes the reader froman idea in the mind of a speaker to its comprehension in the mindof the hearer
* Reflects the latest empirical developments inpsycholinguistics, and is illustrated throughout with examples frombilingual as well as monolingual language processing, secondlanguage acquisition, and sign languages
* Student-friendly features include chapter-by-chapter studyquestions and discussion summaries; the appendix offers anexcellent overview of experimental designs in psycholinguistics,and prepares students for their own research
* Written by an internationally-regarded author team, drawing onforty years of experience in teaching psycholinguistics