Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that comprise a sentence.

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.

Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Why do we gesture when we speak?

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

Bringing together a range of contributions from diverse international scholars, this edited volume explores issues of inequality in student mobility to consider how schools, universities, and colleges can ensure equitable access to international study and exchange.

Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships is an exciting international collaboration among clinical neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists and family therapists that details a range of innovative psychotherapeutic interventions to enable people with communication disorders and their families to access meaningful support.

In Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Xiaofei Lu comprehensively reviews empirical studies that employ corpus linguistic methods to investigate issues in second language variation, processing, production, and development.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language groups--Finnish, Greek, and Korean.

This book builds on Baker and Egbert's previous work on triangulating methodological approaches in corpus linguistics and takes triangulation one step further to highlight its broader applicability when implemented with other linguistic research methods.

An increasing number of students graduate from U.

Robots challenge humans' beliefs and expectations.

Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy is a resource that encourages Spanish teachers and curriculum designers to increase their incorporation of pronunciation into the classroom.

Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language.

Unlike any book before it, this volume embodies the state-of-the-art regarding the experimental study of human communication, by bringing together cutting edge findings from psycholinguistics, communication, cognition, neuroscience, language, and identity.

First Published in 1990.

Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

Teaching through Peer Interaction prepares teachers to use peer communication in the classroom.

This book investigates the argument for the significance and necessity of project-based learning and teaching (PBLT), as it becomes increasingly important in language education.

Bringing together a comprehensive collection of newly-commissioned articles, this Handbook covers the most recent developments across a range of sub-fields relevant to the study of second language Spanish.

How do "e;illegal aliens"e; chart the speech sounds of colloquial English?

This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication.

This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm.

In this volume, university researchers and urban elementary teacher-researchers coauthor chapters on the teachers' year-long inquiries, on a range of literacy topics that they conducted as part of a collaborative school-university action research project.

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

This volume brings together contributions by leading researchers of the social interactional and socio-cultural approaches to language learning and teaching.

Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Practice provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the latest avenues of research and practice in the dynamic field of Specialised English.

This practical resource is a compendium of authentic and hands-on literacy activities that will engage, challenge, and delight students.

Although there has been a great deal of rhetoric about learner empowerment in educational and community development circles, this book is the first to offer detailed examples of successful participatory practices in adult education spanning a wide range of program settings, such as schools, institutions, communities, and the workplace.

In this practical and accessible book, you'll learn how to create equitable and meaningful assessments in your instruction through an inquiry-based approach.

An exploration of how the language faculty can be studied as exact science, providing its conceptual basis and experimental demonstration.

Language, Culture, Identity and Citizenship in College Classrooms and Communities examines what takes place in writing classrooms beyond academic analytical and argumentative writing to include forms that engage students in navigating the civic, political, social and cultural spheres they inhabit.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora is a state-of-the-art collection of cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of second language acquisition and learner corpus research.

This practical guide to doing classroom discourse research provides a comprehensive overview of the research process.

Technology- mediated language learning has matured over the past few decades, with various tools and contexts now widely used in language education for all ages and levels.

Multilingual China explores the dynamics of multilingualism in one of the most multilingual countries in the world.

This study advances a model for Critical Discourse Analysis which draws on Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Linguistics, applied in a critical analysis of immigration discourse.

The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development provides a comprehensive treatment of the major topics and current concerns in the field; exploring the progress of 21st century research, its precursors, and promising research topics for the future.

This collection highlights diverse epistemological perspectives in original research on the important role of multimodality in second language contexts.

Originally published in 1982, the editors felt that their field was clearly in need of explanatory accounts for many different areas.

Originally published in 1986.

All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance.

Originally published in 1986.

Teaching English with Corpora is an accessible and practical introduction to the ways in which online and offline corpora can be used in English language teaching (ELT).

The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers' resistance against racialization.

Winner of the AAAL Book Award 2015Winner of the Modern Language Association's Thirty-Third Mina P.

Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another.

Tools for Teaching in an Educationally Mobile World examines the challenges that undergraduate and postgraduate teachers often encounter when working with students from different national and cultural backgrounds.