Psycholinguistics Arena

The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition

• Edited by Juana Liceras, Helmut Zobl and Helen Goodluck.

Published February 2010

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion. In engaging, up-to-date articles, distinguished experts examine the role of features in current versions of…
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Language Production Across the Life Span

A Special Issue of Language And Cognitive Processes

• Edited by Antje Meyer, and Linda Wheeldon.

Published April 2009

Most current theories of lexical access in speech production are designed to capture the behaviour of young adults – typically college students. However, young adults represent a minority of the world’s speakers. For theories of speech production, the question arises of how the young adults’ speech…
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Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language

Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

• Edited by Jiansheng Guo, Elena Lieven, Nancy Budwig, Susan Ervin-Tripp, Keiko Nakamura and Seyda Ozcaliskan.

Published December 2008

This volume covers state-of-the-art research in the field of crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language. The forty chapters cover a wide range of topics that represent the many research interests of a pioneer, Dan Isaac Slobin, who has been a major intellectual and creative force in…
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Routes to Language

Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman

• Edited by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.

Published December 2008

This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child language acquisition, Melissa Bowerman. Melissa Bowerman has had a profound, widespread, and enduring influence on research conducted in the field for…
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Infant Pathways to Language

Methods, Models, and Research Directions

• Edited by John Colombo, Peggy McCardle and Lisa Freund.

Published October 2008

The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function. The contributors to…
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Understanding Developmental Language Disorders

From Theory to Practice

• Edited by Courtenay Frazier Norbury, J. Bruce Tomblin and Dorothy V.M. Bishop.

Published June 2008

Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason. Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the most common reasons for parents of preschool children to seek the advice of their family doctor. Although…
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The Syllable in Speech Production

Perspectives on the Frame Content Theory

• Edited by Barbara L. Davis, and Krisztina Zajdo.

Published February 2008

As a testament to the scope of Peter MacNeilage’s scholarly work across his 40 year career, contributions to this tribute volume represent a broad spectrum of the seminal issues addressed by phonetic and evolutionary science over a number of years. Approaches to the problems raised by attempting to…
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Scientific Realism in Studies of Reading

• Edited by Alan D. Flurkey, Eric J. Paulson and Kenneth S. Goodman.

Published November 2007

This book provides research-based insights that deepen and broaden current understandings of the nature of reading. Informed by psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic views of reading-as-meaning-construction, the studies build on principles of scientific realism – an approach to inquiry that…
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Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure

Implications for Learnability

• Edited by Melissa Bowerman, and Penelope Brown.

Published October 2007

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure properties than has been realized. The volume is…
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Single-Word Reading

Behavioral and Biological Perspectives

• Edited by Elena L. Grigorenko, and Adam J. Naples.

Published August 2007

As the first title in the new series, New Directions in Communication Disorders Research: Integrative Approaches, this volume discusses a unique phenomenon in cognitive science, single-word reading, which is an essential element in successful reading competence. Single-word reading is an…
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