Psycholinguistics: Learning and Using Languages - Softcover

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Exploring the means by which people learn and use language to communicate ideas, this book discusses a wide range of topics related to speaking and listening, as well as reading and writing. Designed for courses in psychology of language and psycholinguistics the text uses technical terms only when necessary and includes traditional topics such as meaning, speech perception, comprehension, production and language acquisition. It also deals with non-traditional topics such as bilingual language processing and cortical processing of language, and explains how language and speech are used, perceived, comprehended, remembered and produced by normal adults, and looks at how they are acquired by children. The text also clarifies how language and speech are used by bilingual speakers and how they are impaired in brain damage.

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