Psycholinguistics: Introduction and Applications, Second Edition is
the first textbook in psycholinguistics created for working
language professionals and students in speech-language pathology
and language education, as well as for students in psychology and
linguistics. It provides a clear, lively introduction to research
and ideas about how human brains process language in speaking,
understanding, and reading. Within a unifying framework of the
constant interplay of bottom-up (sensory) and top-down
(knowledge-based) processing across all language uses and
modalities, it is an integrated, self-contained, fully updated
account of psycholinguistics and its clinical and pedagogical
applications. In this second edition, author Lise Menn is joined by
leading brain researcher and aphasiologist, Nina Dronkers. The
significantly revised brain chapter contains current findings on
brain structure and function, including the roles of
newly-delineated fiber tracts and language areas outside Broca's
and Wernicke's areas.Five core chapters (language description,
brain structure and function, early and later stages of speech
production, experimental psycholinguistics) form the foundation for
chapters presenting classical and recent research on aphasia, first
language development, reading, and second language learning. A
final chapter demonstrates how linguistics and psycholinguistics
can and should inform classroom and clinical practice in test
design and error analysis, while also explaining the care that must
be taken in translating theoretically based ideas into such
real-world applications. Concepts from linguistics, neurology, and
experimental psychology are kept vivid by illustrations of their
uses in the real world, the clinic, and language teaching.
Technical terms are clearly explained in context and also in a
large reference glossary. The text is now accompanied by a
web-based Student Workbook. The Instructor's Manual, also new, is
flexibly organized for instructors and students of varying
backgrounds.Key Features:*Written in clear, vivid, straightforward
style by experienced professors with varying student needs and
instructor backgrounds in mind.*Explicit, attractive presentation
of clinical and pedagogical applications.* Covers a range of
phenomena from normal, partially-learned, and impaired language,
such as phonological dialect variation, semantic category priming
and garden-path sentences; alteration of the brain by language
experience, overgeneralization, and failure to generalize; aphasia,
oral apraxia, perseveration.*Complete glossary of technical terms
that are also clearly explained throughout the text.*Companion
website has sound files, help with learning the International
Phonetic Alphabet and anatomical terms, color versions of text
figures, and a compact version of the experimental
psycholinguistics section for students with backgrounds in
psychology.*NEW! Companion website includes wide range of
supplemental research information about language,
psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.*NEW! Web-based Student
Workbook with problems, self-quizzes, links to additional
resources, and optional advanced material.*NEW! Web-based
Instructor's Manual, outlining key concepts and source materials
for each section, suggesting discussion topics and instructional
activities, and providing explanations and answers for Student
Workbook problems.
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