Psycholinguistics Arena

Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension

Perspectives From Cognitive Neuroscience

• Edited by Mark Jung Beeman, Christine Chiarello

The statement, "The Right Hemisphere (RH) processes language"--while not exactly revolutionary--still provokes vigorous debate. It often elicits the argument that anything the RH does with...

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

more information about Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension

The Structure of Psychological Common Sense

• By Jan Smedslund

Psychologic is a formal system and relationship within which psychological processes are defined. The language people ordinarily use to formulate, think, and talk about psychological...

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

more information about The Structure of Psychological Common Sense

Lexical Representations And Sentence Processing

Special Issue Of "Language And Cognitive Processes"

• By MaryEllen C. MacDonald

Until recently, much research in language comprehension operated under the assumption that comprehenders initially identified the syntactic structure of sentences they were hearing or reading...

Published July 16th 1997 by Psychology Press.

more information about Lexical Representations And Sentence Processing

A Proverb in Mind

The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom

• By Richard P. Honeck

SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions,...

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

more information about A Proverb in Mind

on Becoming A Language Educator

Personal Essays on Professional Development

• Edited by Christine Pears Casanave, Sandra R. Schecter

These personal essays by first and second language researchers and practitioners reflect on issues, events, and people in their lives that helped them carve out...

Published June 1st 1997 by Routledge.

more information about on Becoming A Language Educator

The Language of Metaphors

• By Andrew Goatly

In this ambitious and wide-ranging textbook Andrew Goatly explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, he provides a powerful...

Published May 15th 1997 by Routledge.

more information about The Language of Metaphors

Dinner Talk

Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse

• By Shoshana Blum-Kulka

Dinner Talk draws upon the recorded dinner conversations of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American middle-class families to explore the...

Published May 1st 1997 by Routledge.

more information about Dinner Talk

Tutorials in Bilingualism

Psycholinguistic Perspectives

• Edited by Annette M.B. de Groot, Judith F. Kroll

The past fifteen years have witnessed an increasing interest in the cognitive study of the bilingual. A major reason why psychologists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, neuropsychologists,...

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

more information about Tutorials in Bilingualism

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.

more information about Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner

Spoken Word Recognition Paradigms

Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

• Edited by Uli H. Frauenfelder, Francois Grosjean

This special issue presents eighteen paradigms used to study spoken word recognition in experimental psycholinguistics. These range from classical paradigms such as phoneme monitoring, phonetic...

Published February 19th 1997 by Psychology Press.

more information about Spoken Word Recognition Paradigms