CONTENIDO

- Contents cross-referenced
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- A key to english phonemic symbols

A. Introduction: key concepts in Pyscholinguistics
1 Psycholinguistics: what is it?
2 Language, speech and communication
3 Language and the brain
4 "Knowing"
5 Lexical storage and lexical access
6 The information processing approach
7 Writing systems
8 Decoding in reading
9 Issues in listening
10 Characteristics of speach
11 Long Term Memory and Schema Theory
12 Exceptional circumstances

B. Development: data
1 Data in Psycholinguistics
2 Animal communucation
3 Localising language in the brain
4 Lexical form
5 Word association
6 Bottom-up and top-down processing
7 Writing at word level
8 Eye movements in reading
9 Categorical perception
10 Stage in the speaking process
11 Meaning representations
12 Language disorders

C. Exploration: analysis and reflection
1 The language studied in Psycholinguistics
2 Talking apes
3 Lateralisation
4 The meaning of 'mecaning'
5 Models of lexical retrieval
6 Memory and language
7 The stages of writing
8 Skilled and unskilled readers
9 Listening in real time
10 A model of Speaking
11 interence
12 Deafness: a small-scale research study

D. Extension: Psycholinguistic readings
1 The goals of psicholinguistics(George A: Miller)
2 The evolution of speach (Ib Ulbaek)
3 Localisation and lateralisation revisited (Terrence Deacon)
4 Forming lexical categories (Jean Aitchison)
5 Lexical processing (Kenneth I. Forster)
6 Working Memory: an overview (Robert H. Logie)
7 Factors in skilled writing (Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia)
8 Decoding versus 'wole word' (Phillip Gough and Sebastian Wren)
9 Locating word boundaries (Anne Cutler and Sally Butterfield)
10 Self-monitoring in speaking (Willem Levelt)
11 Anaphor resolution (Nicola Yuill and Jane Oakhill)
12 Two views of specific language impairment (Dorothy Bishop)

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