Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like.

This book examines the simultaneous contribution of learner vocabulary size and speed to second language performance differences across learner levels and settings.

Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families explores how the philosophy, principles, and practices of the internationally acclaimed Municipal Preschools and Infant Toddler Centers of Reggio Emilia, Italy, advance the social justice and linguistic human rights of emergent bilingual and multilingual children and their families, particularly immigrants and refugees.

How is speech produced and understood in the context of everyday communication?

This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner’s age and so forth.

Offers ready-made, theory-driven deeper-learning materials across subjects to show how to put a pluriliteracies approach into practice.

Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the brain to demonstrate how language is processed.

Based on extensive analysis of real-time, authentic crisis encounters collected in the UK and US, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis sheds light on the relatively hidden world of communication between people in crisis and the professionals whose job it is to help them.

American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides an accessible introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of American English.

This accessible book provides a foundational understanding of the science of deception and lie detection.

School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities.

With a sharp focus, this culmination of cutting-edge research offers a new neuroscientific model for analysing multilingualism.

Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers illustrates the key principles and practical guidelines for the design and exploitation of corpora for classroom-based research.

Atypical Interaction presents a state-of-the-art overview of research which uses conversation analysis to explore how communicative impairments impact on conversation and other forms of talk and social interaction.

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics.

Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists' increasing interest over the last decade.

This textbook describes the approaches to phonology that are most relevant to communication disorders.

This volume presents case studies of language learning beyond the classroom.

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun at the zoo, but they both want to see different animals, and are pulling their mother in different directions!

Writing, reading, and interpretation are acts of human minds, requiring complex cognition at every point.

This book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from different language families, including Amharic, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Newari (Sino-Tibetan), Polish, Tariana (Arawak), and Thai.

This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition.

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts.

Applied Linguistics is still a growing field.

This book presents a unique understanding of the interdependence between language and psychology and how one's speech is shaped by and in turn shapes one's thoughts, beliefs, and emotions.

A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness.

In this original volume, eighteen researchers from different parts of the world reflect on their own research projects, providing insights into key methodological issues in research on second language writing.

This book offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of questions used in censuses, national surveys and international surveys to measure language proficiency.

Parents who are also educational researchers have access to a domain that is highly complex and not always available to other scholars.

Originally published in 1990.

This book is an accessible introduction to linguistics specifically tailored for teachers of second language/bilingual education.

Written by two top vocabulary specialists, this updated edition gives a state-of-the-art introduction to vocabulary teaching and testing.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the use and effects of foreign languages in advertising.

This state-of-the-art volume is the first to capture a hybrid discipline that studies the role and linguistic implications of the human mind in language learning and teaching.

Presents a computational model of sentence processing that is grounded in decades of research in cognitive psychology and AI.

Critical Analysis of Parental Involvement in School presents in-depth explorations of parental involvement within culturally distinct contexts.

The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational, longitudinal, dialogical, and social perspective.