Psycholinguistics: Introduction and Applications

Five core chapters form the foundation for chapters on each of four research areas of applied psycholinguistics: aphasia, first language development, reading, and second language learning. The final chapter demonstrates how linguistics and psycholinguistics can and should inform classroom and clinical practice in test design and error analysis, while also explaining the care that must be taken in translating theoretically based ideas into such real-world applications. For all of these topics, the CD provides links to recent publications and relevant Web sites for readers to explore on their own.

Instructors, why adopt this text?

• Glossary of technical terms that are also clearly explained throughout the text
• Written by a professor with the student curriculum in mind
• CD includes sound files, links to help with learning the International Phonetic Alphabet, and a more compact alternative version of the introductory section
• Clear and attractive layout of clinical and pedagogical applications
• Coverage on a range of phenomena, such as oral apraxia, overgeneralization, semantic category priming, perseveration, garden-path sentences, proofreader's errors, and failure to generalize training