Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics--a philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts.

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language?

How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind?

Communication and language disorders are often considered from one particular point of view - either psychological or neurological.

Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning lack a primary focus on verbs and adjectives.

Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times.

What, exactly, do children understand about the mind?

From expert authors, this book guides educators to conduct assessments that inform daily instruction and identify the assets that emergent bilinguals bring to the classroom.

This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, present, and future towards confronting structural inequalities.

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge.

This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade.

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it.

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it.

This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics.

This volume brings together the latest research from leading scholars on the mental lexicon - the representation of language in the mind/brain at the level of individual words and meaningful sub-word units.

This volume brings together the latest research from leading scholars on the mental lexicon - the representation of language in the mind/brain at the level of individual words and meaningful sub-word units.

This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades.

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines.

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines.

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods.

This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context.

This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context.

Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity.

Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity.

In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology.

This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, owing to social selection pressures.

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive.

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them.

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them.

This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words such as more, as, too, and others.

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition.

This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language.

This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language.

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing.

This book explores the role of phonological templates in early language use from the perspective of usage-based phonology and exemplar models and within the larger developmental framework of Dynamic Systems Theory.

This book is the first dedicated to linguistic parsing - the processing of natural language according to the rules of a formal grammar - in the Minimalist Program.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics.

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics.

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods.

This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so.

This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so.

This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora for studying speakers' and listeners' acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems.

This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora for studying speakers' and listeners' acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems.

This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics.

This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014).

This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014).

This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody.

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