Experimental Psycholinguistics: An Introduction

This book discusses communication systems and the general properties of human language, speech sounds and speech perception, word meanings and the mental dictionary, and learning the authors' first language.

Abstract

Preface 1 Communication systems and the general properties of human language 2 Speech sounds and speech perception 3 Word meanings and the mental dictionary 4 Sentences: syntax, meaning, and comprehension 5 Learning our first language 6 Dialects and schooling 7 Language, thought, and communication References Author index Subject index