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  1. Talking Heads

    The Neuroscience of Language

    By Gianfranco Denes

    The origin, development, and nature of language has been the focus of theoretical debate among philosophers for many centuries. Following the pioneering clinical observations 150 years ago of loss of language following a cerebral lesion, language started to be considered a biological system, that...

    Published September 6th 2011 by Psychology Press

  2. Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals

    An Introduction

    By Annette M.B. de Groot

    Psycholinguistics – the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language – had a strong monolingual orientation during the first four decades following its emergence around 1950. The awareness that a...

    Published November 14th 2010 by Psychology Press

  3. Talking the Talk

    Language, Psychology and Science

    By Trevor A. Harley

    Language makes us human, but how do we use it and how do children learn it? Talking the Talk is an introduction to the psychology of language. Written for the reader with no background in the area or knowledge of psychology, it explains how we actually "do" language: how we speak, listen, and read....

    Published December 20th 2009 by Psychology Press

  4. Understanding Developmental Language Disorders

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Courtenay Frazier Norbury, J. Bruce Tomblin, Dorothy V.M. Bishop

    Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason. Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the most common reasons for parents of preschool children to seek the advice of their family doctor. Although...

    Published June 30th 2008 by Psychology Press

  5. The Psychology of Language

    From Data to Theory, 3rd Edition

    By Trevor A Harley

    The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language, including how we acquire, understand, produce, and store language. The third edition contains new chapters on how...

    Published December 2nd 2007 by Psychology Press

  6. The Articulate Mammal

    An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, 5th Edition

    By Jean Aitchison, Jean Aitchison

    An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date with recent theories, including new material on: the possibility of a ‘language gene’ post-Chomskyan ideas...

    Published September 5th 2007 by Routledge

  7. Data Elicitation for Second and Foreign Language Research

    By Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    This timely reference guide is specifically directed toward the needs of second language researchers, who can expect to gain a clearer understanding of which techniques may be most appropriate and fruitful in given research domains. Data Elicitation for Second and Foreign Language Research is a...

    Published February 21st 2007 by Routledge

  8. Cognitive Linguistics

    An Introduction

    By Vyvyan Evans, Melanie Green

    A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled...

    Published March 2nd 2006 by Routledge

  9. The Psychology of the Language Learner

    Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

    By Zoltán Dörnyei

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies in various learner attributes such as personality traits, motivation, or language aptitude. In psychology, these...

    Published November 29th 2005 by Routledge

  10. Bilingual Education

    From Compensatory To Quality Schooling, 2nd Edition

    By María Estela Brisk

    Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its original purpose of synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to demonstrate that quality bilingual education is possible and desirable.Findings from a wide range of studies are...

    Published September 6th 2005 by Routledge