Language in Mind, An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Second Edition by Sedivy, Julie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title page About the Cover and Chapter Opener Images Copyright Dedication Brief Contents Contents Preface Media and Supplements 1 Science, Language, and the Science of Language

1.1 What Do Scientists Know about Language? 1.2 Why Bother?

2 Origins of Human Language

2.1 Why Us? 2.2 The Social Underpinnings of Language 2.3 The Structure of Language 2.4 The Evolution of Speech 2.5 How Humans Invent Languages 2.6 Language and Genes 2.7 Survival of the Fittest Language?

3 Language and the Brain

3.1 Evidence from Damage to the Brain 3.2 Mapping the Healthy Human Brain 3.3 The Brain in Real-Time Action

4 Learning Sound Patterns

4.1 Where Are the Words? 4.2 Infant Statisticians 4.3 What Are the Sounds? 4.4 Learning How Sounds Pattern 4.5 Some Patterns Are Easier to Learn than Others

5 Learning Words

5.1 Words and Their Interface to Sound 5.2 Reference and Concepts 5.3 Understanding Speakersâ€™ Intentions 5.4 Parts of Speech 5.5 The Role of Language Input 5.6 Complex Words

6 Learning the Structure of Sentences

6.1 The Nature of Syntactic Knowledge 6.2 Learning Grammatical Categories 6.3 How Abstract Is Early Syntax? 6.4 Complex Syntax and Constraints on Learning 6.5 What Do Children Do with Input?

7 Speech Perception

7.1 Coping with the Variability of Sounds 7.2 Integrating Multiple Cues 7.3 Adapting to a Variety of Talkers 7.4 The Motor Theory of Speech Perception

8 Word Recognition

8.1 A Connected Lexicon 8.2 Ambiguity 8.3 Recognizing Spoken Words in Real Time 8.4 Reading Written Words

9 Understanding Sentence Structure and Meaning

9.1 Incremental Processing and the Problem of Ambiguity 9.2 Models of Ambiguity Resolution 9.3 Variables That Predict the Difficulty of Ambiguous Sentences 9.4 Making Predictions 9.5 When Memory Fails 9.6 Variable Minds

10 Speaking: From Planning to Articulation

10.1 The Space between Thinking and Speaking 10.2 Ordered Stages in Language Production 10.3 Formulating Messages 10.4 Structuring Sentences 10.5 Putting the Sounds in Words

11 Discourse and Inference

11.1 From Linguistic Form to Mental Models of the World 11.2 Pronoun Problems 11.3 Pronouns in Real Time 11.4 Drawing Inferences and Making Connections 11.5 Understanding Metaphor

12 The Social Side of Language

12.1 Tiny Mind Readers or Young Egocentrics? 12.2 Conversational Inferences: Deciphering What the Speaker Meant 12.3 Audience Design 12.4 Dialogue

13 Language Diversity

13.1 What Do Languages Have in Common? 13.2 Explaining Similarities across Languages 13.3 Words, Concepts, and Culture 13.4 Language Structure and the Connection between Culture and Mind 13.5 One Mind, Multiple Languages

Glossary Literature Cited Author Index Subject Index About the Book