Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This Handbook brings together the world''s foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development.

Clear, readable, and easy to consult, this book is an ideal reference for students to extend their knowledge of Chinese.

This study examines how words combine with hand gestures and other bodily movements to create unified ''composite utterances''.

This Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible overview of how bilinguals alternate between their languages when they speak.

Analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent transformation into several non-standard varieties.

Deepens our understanding of narration in Latino cultures, methods of thinking and expressing emotion, and implications for school achievement.

In this book, a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression.

Fascinating insight into the life-span and productivity of the non-verbal, visual mind.

An unusually detailed examination of conversation analysis from a psychotherapy perspective.

This book looks at some central problems and questions in the study of ellipsis, whereby certain portions of a sentence are unspoken.

Demonstrates how our understanding of pragmatics can be informed by the study of speech disorders.

This book presents an examination of whether early childhood is a critical period for language acquisition.

A comprehensive textbook examining how both ''normal'' and brain-damaged speakers process language in the brain.

The first text to promote a newly developed method of discursive research in practice.

This book examines how we refer to other people in everyday conversation, across different languages and cultures.

Explains why reading disorders have been hard to identify and how mind, brain and education can help to understand them.

Outstanding and unique contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind by Noam Chomsky.

An accessible introduction to child language acquisition, exploring language development from birth.

This multidisciplinary book discussing the role of the evolutionary basis for the brain mechanisms that support language.

This book provides a comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences.

A 2004 overview of linguistic research into acquisition of phonology, focusing on constraints in phonological acquisition.

An engaging account of how new languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force.

This 2006 book describes the many ways that the mind and body are closely interrelated.

Textbook designed to help the student achieve optimal success as a language learner and user.

This engaging and accessible book explains the incredible mastery of language by young children.

This authoritative 2003 textbook provides a linguistic perspective on second language acquisition.

A study of the analysis of discourse markers (words like ''so'', ''however'', and ''well'').

This fascinating book offers exciting insights into the precursors of speech.

Introduction to the study of children''s language difficulties, drawing widely on real-life examples.

Explores similarities and differences between spoken and signed languages, challenging notions of what constitutes ''language''.

This 2003 book discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty.

Addresses questions in the study of first language acquisition in three domains of child language.

Reinvestigates how a speaker/hearer''s experience with language affects the representation of phonology.

Presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or bilinguality) to societal bilingualism.

Describes how intellectual development of bilingual children differs from that of monolingual children.

How human emotions are ''constructed'' from individuals'' embodied experiences in different cultural settings.

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

A study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations.

First systematic and wide-ranging treatment of problems of communication involving Latin in the Roman world.

In this 2003 book, Stephen C.

This book discusses the biological basis for a person''s use of language.

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic values and practices that have shaped the contemporary state of English language education in Chile, offering a space for a transformative vision that prioritises pedagogical practices grounded in (g)localised methodologies and epistemologies.

This accessible volume presents an up-to-date overview of how young children, older youth, and adults develop multilingual proficiencies.

The Handbook of Speech Perception is a collection of forward-looking articles that offer a summary of the technical and theoretical accomplishments in this vital area of research on language.

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics.

Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World is the winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2005.

This is the first text on language in communication written from a social psychological perspective that sets issues in their broader biological, sociological and cultural contexts.

Each chapter is written by a speech and language therapist specialising in psycholinguistic approaches to investigation and intervention.

One approach to the study of language has been to describe people whose ability to communicate is impaired.

This publication is concerned with the early stages of language acquisition and is designed for use by early childhood teachers, nursery nurses, special education teachers and others working with children experiencing difficulties in learning to talk.