Psycholinguistics

These volumes reprint articles from a variety of international journals, book chapters and key technical reports, to take a broad look at how the field has developed from the turn of theTwentieth Century through to the turn of the twenty-first.Since the 1960s, there has been a boom in research on how the human mind both produces and comprehends language. Psycholinguistics - as a product of this boom - represents a synthesis between linguistics and psychology.The set covers the following topics:* Language Acquisition* The Mental Lexicon* Sentence Processing* Discourse and Meaning* Spoken Language Production* Reading* Disorders of Language and Production* Computational Models of Language Learning and Adult * Language Use