Psycholinguistics Arena

Referential Communication Tasks

• By George Yule

Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This...

Published April 1st 1997 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner

• By Susan M. Gass

This volume provides a definitive view of the relationship between input, interaction, and second language acquisition. In so doing, it should prove useful to those...

Published April 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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The Multilingual Self

An Inquiry Into Language Learning

• By Natasha Lvovich

This book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self. The idea of writing...

Published April 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Childes/Bib

An Annotated Bibliography of Child Language and Language Disorders, 1997 Supplement

• By Roy Higginson, Brian MacWhinney

Featuring approximately 2,700 references, this supplement extends the previous volumes, CHILDES/BIB - 1991 (LEA) and the CHILDES/BIB - 1994 Supplement (LEA), to a total of...

Published February 1st 1997 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Processing interclausal Relationships

Studies in the Production and Comprehension of Text

• Edited by Jean Costermans, Michel Fayol

During the last 10 years, more and more linguistic and psycholinguistic research has been devoted to the study of discourse and written texts. Much of...

Published December 1st 1996 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Communicating Meaning

The Evolution and Development of Language

• Edited by Boris M. Velichkovsky, Duane M. Rumbaugh

Dealing specifically with the origins and development of human language, this book is based on a selection of materials from a recent international conference held...

Published September 1st 1996 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Toward A Genetics of Language

• Edited by Mabel L. Rice

The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of language impairment, and brain imaging....

Published July 1st 1996 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Children's Language

Volume 9

• Edited by Carolyn E. Johnson, John H.V. Gilbert

This volume brings together the work of 32 scholars from 13 countries -- investigations of children learning 15 different languages, in some instances more than...

Published July 1st 1996 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Signal to Syntax

Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition

• Edited by James L. Morgan, Katherine Demuth

In the beginning, before there are words, or syntax, or discourse, there is speech. Speech is an infant's gateway to language. Without exposure to speech,...

Published November 1st 1995 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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A Developmental-functionalist Approach To Child Language

• By Nancy Budwig

Although there has been much empirical study within what has been referred to as "functional approaches to child language," there has yet to be a...

Published September 1st 1995 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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