The Handbook of Psycholinguistics - (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) by Eva M Fernàndez & Helen Smith Cairns (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Incorporating approaches from linguistics and psychology, <i>The</i> <i>Handbook of Psycholinguistics</i> explores language processing and language acquisition from an array of perspectives and features cutting edge research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and other related fields.</p> <p>The<i> Handbook</i> provides readers with a comprehensive review of the current state of the field, with an emphasis on research trends most likely to determine the shape of psycholinguistics in the years ahead. The chapters are organized into three parts, corresponding to the major areas of psycholinguists: production, comprehension, and acquisition. The collection of chapters, written by a team of international scholars, incorporates multilingual populations and neurolinguistic dimensions. Each of the three sections also features an overview chapter in which readers are introduced to the different theoretical perspectives guiding research in the area covered in that section.</p> <p>Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, <i>The Handbook of Psycholingui</i>s<i>tics</i> is a valuable addition to the reference shelves of researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science, as well as advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in how language works in the human mind and how language is acquired.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"Fernández and Cairns have assembled a fascinating collection of chapters on critical topics in language production, comprehension, and acquisition that do justice to the richness of psycholinguistic research on language, including bilingualism, sign language, and language disorders. Each broad section is introduced by an excellent overview placing the chapters in a larger context. This <i>Handbook</i> is a must-read for all students of language."<br> <b>Lynn Frazier, </b> University of Massachusetts, USA <p>Incorporating approaches from linguistics and psychology, <i>The</i> <i>Handbook of Psycholinguistics</i> explores language processing and language acquisition from an array of perspectives and features cutting edge research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and other related fields. <p><i>The</i> <i>Handbook</i> provides readers with a comprehensive review of the current state of the field, with an emphasis on research trends most likely to determine the shape of psycholinguistics in the years ahead. The chapters are organized into three parts, corresponding to the major areas of psycholinguists: production, comprehension, and acquisition. The collection of chapters, written by a team of international scholars, incorporates multilingual populations and neurolinguistic dimensions. Each of the three sections also features an overview chapter in which readers are introduced to the different theoretical perspectives guiding research in the area covered in that section. <p>Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, <i>The Handbook of Psycholinguistics</i> is a valuable addition to the reference shelves of researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science, as well as advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in how language works in the human mind and how language is acquired.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Eva M. Fernández</b> is Professor at the City University of New York, USA. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic language processing in monolingual and bilingual populations; she has additional research interests in measures of student success in higher education. <p><b>Helen Smith Cairns</b> is Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, USA. She has pursued research in sentence processing and in first language acquisition, writing or editing six books and numerous articles and chapters. She is most proud of the students she has mentored over the years.
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