Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This classified and annotated research bibliography is meant to serve as an introduction to the rich field of Japanese psycholinguistics, by providing an exhaustive inventory of what has been done in or about Japanese in a psycholinguistic sense.

The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation.

This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC.

Cognitive linguistics is nothing if not an interdisciplinary and comparative enterprise.

At last - a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger 'theory complex' delineated in fascinating detail.

Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again.

The thought of Meister Eckhart - the Dominican theologian, the preacher, the master of language, the mystic - exudes a remarkable fascination on the modern mind, not the least due to its characteristic interplay of scholastic-academic and vernacular terminology.

This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding.

This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena.

This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy.

This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism).

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA).

This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax.

This is the first book, within the interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies, dealing with the specific tasks and problems involved in the translation of literary works as well as film and television texts, and in the live experience of simultaneous and consecutive interpretation.

In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking.

This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language.

This book marks a new development in the field of second language acquisition research.

This volume explores a variety of aspects of second language speech, with special focus on contributions to the field made by (primarely) generative linguists looking at the sounds and sound systems of second language learners.

Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human cognitive/linguistic activities.

Writing is not just about conveying ‘content’ but also about the representation of self.

This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism.

In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis.

This volume presents discourse production in multilingual contexts as a specific type of language contact situation.

This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon.

Are all children exposed to the same linguistic input, and do they follow the same route in acquisition?

The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously.

The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity.

Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world.

This book is a pioneer attempt to bridge the gap between the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and second and foreign language (L2) writing.

This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world.

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982.

This essay attempts to show how a second language is acquired by very young children in the process of socialization with other children.

Processability Theory (PT) as developed by Manfred Pienemann is a prominent theory of second language acquisition.

This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG).

This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents.

Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’.

About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists.

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.

This interdisciplinary work discloses an unexpected coherence between recent concepts in brain science and postmodern thought.

How can symbols have meaning for a subject?

This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc.

Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers.

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation.

When child language began to be studied in the sixties, what interested researchers most was what could be considered language per se.

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift.

This volume presents the results of part of the ESF project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'.

In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and meaning, plays a crucial role in any model of language processing.

This volume examines the sociocultural factors that influence language choices and uses in the multilingual country of Luxembourg.

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition.

This is the second volume of the SiBil series to present results from the European Science Foundation's project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'.