Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science

by Matthew J. Traxler

The new edition of the popular introduction to the field of psycholinguistics, providing a solid foundation for understanding how people produce and comprehend language Introduction to Understanding Language Science, Second Edition, presents a comprehensive overview of the cognitive processes involved in language acquisition, production, and comprehension. Balancing depth and accessibility, this bestselling textbook adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language that incorporates perspectives from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology, neurophysiology, and related fields. Student-friendly chapters explain the core components of speech, discuss how the brain receives and applies the basic building blocks of language, review leading research in psycholinguistics, describe the experimental evidence behind major theories, and more. Fully updated to incorporate recent developments in the field, the second edition of Introduction to Psycholinguistics includes a new section devoted to language and cognitive disorders, two entirely new chapters on language as aspects of autism and schizophrenia, updated illustrations and learning objectives, and new coverage of language acquisition, the cognitive neuroscience of language, bilingualism, and sign language. This valuable Introduction to Understanding Language Science, Second Edition, is an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate courses in psycholinguistics, language processing, and cognitive or communication disorders, as well as related courses in psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, language education, and computational linguistics.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Psychology, Textbooks, Language, Science, Academia

704 pages, Paperback

First published September 7, 2011

Reviews

[Abdallah Reguig · Rating 4 out of 5]

a very good book for people or students who want to dig deeper in the fields of psycholinguistics, some terms need more explanation while the good thing about this book is that it tackles various aspects in psycholinguistics.
I recommend it

[Anon · Rating 2 out of 5]

not a badly written textbook, but very bad customer support from the publisher

As a teacher, I bought the book and have found it decent. However, I have contacted the publisher for the access to the teaching materials listed in the companion website, as advertised in the book. I have logged in to the site and submitted a request in July - and have still never gotten a resolution as of Sep. The site still listed the materials as on-hold after I have logged in - I had tried to contact their listed representative and never got a reply from him/her. No, I will not recommended it as the major textbook for my class anymore. I am using anther book, instead. There are many psycholinguistic books out there.

[Hussin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wouldn't say it's an introductory book. It's more directed to someone who is already familiar with the field. Towards the end it got quite technical , but this book is important because it offers a kind of review of different theories and hypotheses which I didn't encounted in other intros to psycholinguistics. I guess to read and understand this book , one has to read simpler introductory books.

[El Houcine]

I wouldn't say it's an introductory book. It's more directed to someone who is already familiar with the field. Towards the end it got quite technical , but this book is important because it offers a kind of review of different theories and hypotheses which I didn't encounted in other intros to psycholinguistics. I guess to read and understand this book , one has to read simpler introductory books.

[Said Dhimni · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was helpful to me as a support to my psycholinguistics course. I loved it for the short part that I read from it. I will probably read it again when I get involved in psycholinguistics again.

[Rasmus Puggaard]

Read this for psycholing course. Definitely more targeted towards psych majors; some of the linguistics are somewhat naive, while some of the neuro-stuff is a tad underexplained. But fairly good, comprehensive introduction to the field

[craig hensley · Rating 4 out of 5]

good, little dry, definitely more technical than an introduction should be

[Laura Schulz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spring 2016: UMN SLHS 1402

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Monster book. Interesting subject but what a way of writing it down... makes it a lot more complicated than it needs to be.