Book description
This textbook offers a cutting edge introduction to psycholinguistics,
exploring the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and use.
- Provides a step-by-step tour through language acquisition,
production, and comprehension, from the word level to sentences
and dialogue
- Incorporates both theory and data, including in-depth
descriptions of the experimental evidence behind theories
- Incorporates a comprehensive review of research in bilingual
language processing, sign language, reading, and the neurological
basis of language production and comprehension
- Approaches the subject from a range of perspectives, including
psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology,
and neurophysiology
- Includes a full program of resources for instructors and
students, including review exercises, a test bank, and lecture
slides, available online at www. wiley.
com/go/traxler
Matt Traxler
is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He
edited
The Handbook of Psycholinguistics
(with Morton Ann Gernsbacher, 2006). He currently serves as associate
editor on the
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
and
Language and Linguistics Compass
. He is also a consulting editor at the
Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
. When Dr. Traxler is not at work at the university, he will often be
found stalking the wily rainbow trout.
