Psycholinguistics Arena

Developmental Perspectives on Metaphor

A Special Issue of metaphor and Symbolic Activity

• Edited by Ellen Winner

Research on the development of metaphor abilities in children can be dated back as far as 1960, with Asch and Nerlove's pioneering study, which concluded...

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

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Semantic Knowledge and Semantic Representations

A Special Double Issue of the Journal Memory

• By Rosaleen A. McCarthy

What is the basis of our ability to assign meanings to words or to objects? Such questions have, until recently, been regarded as lying within...

Published October 31st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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The Psychology of Language

From Data To Theory

• By Dr Trevor A. Harley

The Psychology of Language (2^nd Edition) is a thorough revision and update of the popular first edition. Comprehensive and contemporary, it contains all the student...

Published October 31st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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The Psychology of Language

From Data To Theory

• By Trevor A. Harley, Dr Trevor A. Harley

The Psychology of Language (2^nd Edition) is a thorough revision and update of the popular first edition. Comprehensive and contemporary, it contains all the student...

Published October 31st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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Smooth Talkers

The Linguistic Performance of Auctioneers and Sportscasters

• By Koenraad Kuiper, Koenrad Kuiper

This book examines the contexts in which sportscasters and auctioneers speak and the characteristic techniques they employ in order to speak fluently. These speakers were...

Published October 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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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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Intelligent Language Tutors

Theory Shaping Technology

• Edited by V. Melissa Holland, Jonathan D. Kaplan, Michelle R. Sams

The techniques of natural language processing (NLP) have been widely applied in machine translation and automated message understanding, but have only recently been utilized in...

Published September 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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Intelligent Language Tutors

Theory Shaping Technology

• Edited by V. Melissa Holland, Michelle R. Sams, Jonathan D. Kaplan

The techniques of natural language processing (NLP) have been widely applied in machine translation and automated message understanding, but have only recently been utilized in...

Published September 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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Semantics

Defining the Discipline

• By Robert A. Hipkiss

The subject of semantics has been appropriated by various disciplines including linguistic philosophy, logic, cognitive psychology, anthropological linguistics, and computer technology. As a result, it...

Published July 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy

• Edited by Fred R. Eckman, Jean Mileham, Rita Rutkowski Weber, Diane Highland, Peter W. Lee

A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress...

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

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