Psycholinguistics: Critical Concepts in Psychology

These volumes reprint articles from a variety of international journals, book chapters and key technical reports, to take a broad look at how the field has developed from the turn of theTwentieth Century through to the turn of the twenty-first.

Since the 1960s, there has been a boom in research on how the human mind both produces and comprehends language. Psycholinguistics - as a product of this boom - represents a synthesis between linguistics and psychology.

The set covers the following topics:

* Language Acquisition

* The Mental Lexicon

* Sentence Processing

* Discourse and Meaning

* Spoken Language Production

* Reading

* Disorders of Language and Production

* Computational Models of Language Learning and Adult * Language Use