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The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory
by Trevor A. Harley. 528 pgs.

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This comprehensive study of the psychology of language explores how we speak, read, remember, learn and understand language. The author examines each of these aspects in detail.

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Preface to the Second Edition

How to Use This Book

Section A: Introduction

1: The Study of Language

2: Describing Language

Section B: The Biological and Developmental Bases of Language

3: The Foundations of Language

4: Language Development

5: Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition

Section C: Word Recognition

6: Recognizing Visual Words

7: Reading

8: Understanding Speech

Section D: Meaning and Beyond

9: Understanding the Structure of Sentences

10: Word Meaning

11: Comprehension

Section E: Production and Other Aspects of Language

12: Language Production

13: The Structure of the Language System

14: New Directions

Appendix: Connectionism

Glossary

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure
by Michael Tomasello. 296 pgs.

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Introduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure

References

1. Introduction

Chapter 1 Conceptualization, Symbolization, and Grammar

6. Conclusion

References

Chapter 2 the Functional Approach to Grammar

References

Introduction

Chapter 3 the Structure of Events and the Structure of Language

Conclusion: Semantics and Grammar

Conclusion: Semantics and Grammar

Notes

Chapter 4 Language and the Flow of Thought

Conclusion

Chapter 5 the Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective

1. Introduction1

Notes

References

Chapter 6 Emergent Grammar

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Chapter 7 Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories

Notes

References

Chapter 8 Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language1

1. Introduction

5. Conclusion

Notes

Notes

1. Introduction1

Chapter 9 the Acquisition of Wh-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition

6. Conclusion

Notes

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Chapter 10 Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration

Notes

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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The Social and Psychological Contexts of Language
by Robert N. St. Clair, Howard Giles. 338 pgs.

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List of Contributors

Introduction

1: The Contexts of Language

3: The Influence of Patients' Speech upon Doctors: The Diagnostic Interview

6: Graduates of Early Immersion: Retrospective Views of Grade 11 Students and Their Parents

9: Person-Centered Speech, Psychological Development, and the Contexts of Language Usage

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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The Psychology of Word Meanings
by Paula J. Schwanenflugel. 292 pgs.

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Contributors

Preface

An Introduction to the Psychology of Word Meaning

1: Meaning and Concepts

2: Word Meaning and Word Use

3: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Word Meanings

4: The Combination of Prototype Concepts

5: Predicating and Nonpredicating Combinations

6: Learning Word Meanings from Definitions: Problems and Potential

7: Beyond the Instrumentalist Hypothesis: Some Relationships Between Word Meanings and Comprehension

8: On the Early Influence of Meaning in Word Recognition: A Review of the Literature

9: Why are Abstract Concepts Hard to Understand?

10: Interpretation of Word Meanings by the Cerebral Hemispheres: One Is Not Enough

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Symbol Formation: An Organismic-Developmental Approach to the Psychology of Language
by Heinz L. Werner, Bernard L. Kaplan. 530 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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Part I: Theory

Chapter 1: The Organismic-Developmental Framework

Chapter 2: The Organismic Basis of Symbol Formation

Chapter 3: General Nature of Developmental Changes in the Symbolic Process

Chapter 4: On the Nature of Language as an Autonomous Medium

Part II: Ontogenesis

Introduction

Part III: The Primordial Handling of the Linguistic Medium in Special States

Introduction

Chapter 14: The Physiognomic Apprehension of Language Forms

Chapter 15: Handling of Linguistic Forms in Dreams

Chapter 16: Primitivized Handling of the Linguistic Medium in Pathological (schizophrenic) States

Part IV: Linguistic Characterization of Objects in External Versus Inner Speech

Introduction

Chapter 17: Inner Versus External Speech in Normal Adults

Chapter 18: Inner and External Speech in Schizophrenics as Compared with Normals

Chapter 19: On the Ontogenesis of Symbolic Representation Under Different Conditions of Communication: the Differentiation of External and Inner Speech

Part V: Experimental Studies on Symbolization in Nonphonic Media

Introduction

Chapter 20: Nonverbal (linear) Naming in Normal Adults

Chapter 21: Nonverbal (linear) Naming in Schizophrenia

Chapter 22: The Representation of Simple Statements in A Nonverbal Medium

Chapter 23: The Expression of Time in Nonverbal Media of Representation

Chapter 24: The Representation of Relations Between Thoughts in Nonverbal Media

Chapter 25: On Linguistic Parallels to Nonverbal (linear) Representation

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Index
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Psycholinguistics: A Cross-Language Perspective, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Elizabeth Bates, Antonella Devescovi, Beverly Wulfeck. 27 pgs.

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Sentence and Text Comprehension: Roles of Linguistic Structure, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Charles Clifton Jr., Susan A. Duffy. 29 pgs.

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Psycholinguistics: Language, Mind, and World
by Danny D. Steinberg. 240 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter 1: Fundamental Language Abilities of Speakers

Summary

Notes

Chapter 2: Chomsky's Syntactic Based Grammar

Notes

Chapter 3: Semantic Based Grammar

Conclusions

Notes

Chapter 4: Grammar, Speaker Performance, and Psychological Reality

Notes

Chapter 5: Empiricism, Rationalism, and Behaviorism

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Chapter 6: Language and Thought

Notes

Chapter 7: Sentence Production and Understanding

Notes

Chapter 8: Child Language Acquisition

Chapter 9: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

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Chapter 10: Reading Principles and Teaching

References

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Subject Index
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Bridges between Psychology and Linguistics: A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman
by Donna Jo Napoli, Judy Anne Kegl. 300 pgs.

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Introduction

1 The Decline of Visually Guided Reaching During Infancy

2 Programs For Movement Sequences

3 Similarity and The Structure of Categories

4 Perception of a Unified World: The Role of Discontinuities

5 Infant Vocalizations And Changes in Experience

6 Mechanisms for Listener-Adaptation In Language Production: Limiting the Role of The "Model of the Listener"

7 Linguistics and Dyslexia In Language Acquisition

8 Spatial Language And Spatial Cognition

9 Farewell to "Thee"

10 Linearity as a Scope Principle For Chinese: the Evidence From First Language Acquisition

11 On Interpreting Partitives

12 On the Relevance of Traditional Phonological Analysis to The Abstract Patterns Found in Asl And Other Signed Languages

13 Phonology as An Intelligent System

14 Linguistic Theory and The Naturalist Approach To Semantics

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Linguistic Structure and Change: An Explanation from Language Processing
by Thomas Berg. 336 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

List of Abbreviations

1: On the 'Art' of Explanation

2: Explanation from a Macrolinguistic Perspective

3: Method

4: Language Structure

5: Language Change

6: Poetic Language

7: Discussion

8: A Psycholinguistic Model of Language Structure and Change

9: Implications for Psycholinguistic Theory

10: The Overall Perspective: Reductionist or Non-Reductionist?

References

Index
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Language Comprehension as Structure Building
by Morton Ann Gernsbacher. 288 pgs.

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PREFACE

1 Introduction

2 The Process Of Laying a Foundation

Notes

3 The Processes Of Mapping and Shifting

NOTES

4 The Mechanisms Of Suppression and Enhancement

Notes

5 Individual Differences In Structure Building

Notes

APPENDIX Example Comprehension Questions and Scoring Key from the Multi-Media Comprehension Battery

6 Conclusions

Notes

REFERENCES

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Perspectives on Sentence Processing
by Charles Clifton Jr., Lyn Frazier, Keith Rayner. 490 pgs.

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List of Contributors

Preface

1: Introduction

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1: SENTENCE PROCESSING and THE BRAIN

2: Event-Related Brain Potentials as Tools for Comprehending Language Comprehension

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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3: Brain Responses to Lexical Ambiguity Resolution and Parsing

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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II PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING

4: Access to Phonological-Form Representations in Language Comprehension and Production

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5: Vertical and Horizontal Similarity in Spoken-Word Recognition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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III SYNTACTIC PROCESSING: INFORMATION FLOW AND DECISION MAKING

6: Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution as Lexical Ambiguity Resolution

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7: Toward a Lexicalist Framework for Constraint- Based Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

8: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Psycholinguistic Constraints on Prepositional-Phrase Attachment

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9: Unbounded Dependencies, Island Constraints, and Processing Complexity

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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10: German Verb-Final Clauses and Sentence Processing: Evidence for Immediate Attachment

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IV SYNTACTIC PROCESSING AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS

11: On the Nature of the Principle-Based Sentence Processor

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12: A Processing Model for Free Word-Order Languages

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

13: The Finite Connectivity of Linguistic Structure

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

V REFERENTIAL PROCESSING

14: Resolving Pronouns and Other Anaphoric Devices: The Case for Diversity in Discourse Processing

CONCLUSIONS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

16: The Use of Structural, Lexical, and Pragmatic Information in Parsing Attachment Ambiguities

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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VI SENTENCE PROCESSING AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

18: Learning, Parsing, and Modularity

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Semiotic Psychology: Speech as an Index of Emotions and Attitudes
by Norman Markel. 182 pgs.

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Foreword Contemporary View of Semiotic Psychology

Conclusion

Introduction

Part I: The Psychology of Sign Behavior

1: Thinking

2: Emotive States: I

3: Emotive States: II A. Interpersonal Orientation

Part II: Speech Signs

4: Linguistic Signs

5: Paralinguistic Signs

Part III: Semiotic Psychology

6: The Idiographic Paradigm

7: The Nomothetic Paradigm

8: Classic Experiments

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index
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Morphological Aspects of Language Processing
by Laurie Beth Feldman. 416 pgs.

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Contributors

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Part 1: Visual and Orthographic Issues in Morphological Processing

1: On the Role of Spelling in Morpheme Recognition: Experimental Studies with Children and Adults

2: Processing the Dynamic Visual-Spatial Morphology of Signed Languages

3: Where Is Morphology and How Is It Processed? the Case of Written Word Recognition

Part 2: Semantic Issues in Morphological Processing

4: Case Morphology and Thematic Role in Word Recognition

5: The Role of Orthographic and Semantic Transparency of the Base Morpheme in Morphological Processing

6: Modeling Morphological Processing

Part 3: Phonological Issues in Morphological Processing

8: Morphological Awareness and Early Reading Achievement

9: Linguistic Influences on the Spelling of Asl/English Bilinguals

10: Diachronic and Typological Properties of Morphology and Their Implications for Representation

11: Phonological and Lexical Constraints on Morphological Processing

Part 4: Structural and Statistical Issues in Morphological Processing

12: Morphological Factors in Visual Word Identification in Hebrew

13: The Representation of Bound Morphemes in the Lexicon: a Chinese Study

14: Information Load Constraints on Processing Inflected Morphology

15: Distributional Properties of Derivational Affixes: Implications for Processing

16: Are Morphemes Really Necessary?

17: Left-To-Right Processing of Derivational Morphology

Author Index

Subject Index

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