Full Description
This book is a thorough introduction to psycholinguistics, and shows how the area relates to psychology, linguistics, philosophy and education. It focuses on how young children acquire language and demonstrates how sign language helps us to gain a deeper understanding of the acquisition process. It also explores more complex and challenging topics such as mental grammar and sentence processing, the relationship of language to thought and culture to the brain. Other topics include second language acquisition processes, teaching methods and the cognitive impact of bilingualism.
Contents
Preface Acknowledgements PART 1language 2. Animals and language 3. Wild children and language 4. Sign language, written language and the deaf PART 2: LANGUAGE AND MIND 5. Mental grammar 6. Sentence processing and psychological reality 7. Language: from intelligence or innate ideas? 8. Language, thought and culture 9. Language and the brain PART 3: SECOND LANGUAGE 10. Children vs adults in second-language acquisition 11. Second-language teaching 12. Bilingualism and cognition Author index. Subject index.
