SubjectsLinguistics / Psycholinguistics
Book series
ISSN 2352-0531
Human Cognitive Processing
Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg
ISSN 1387-6724
Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching
Edited by Manfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase and Jörg-U. Keßler
ISSN 2210-6480
Journals
Evolutionary Linguistic Theory
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Eric Fuß
ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch
ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272
The Mental Lexicon
Edited by Harald Baayen, Melanie J. Bell, Jessica Nieder and Vito Pirrelli
ISSN 1871-1340 | E‑ISSN 1871‑1375
Translation, Cognition & Behavior
Edited by Elena Davitti and Alper Kumcu
ISSN 2542-5277 | E‑ISSN 2542‑5285
Epistemological issue: What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
Edited by Matthew T. Carlson and Jorge González Alonso
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 (2026) v, 100 pp.
Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond
Edited by Carmen Portero Muñoz, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:1 (2026) vi, 273 pp.
Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing
Edited by Gabrielle Klassen and John W. Schwieter
The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 16] 2026. xv, 314 pp.
Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction
Emilia Nottbeck
This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 10] 2026. xv, 246 pp. + index
Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.
Epistemological issue: Translanguaging
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 (2025) vi, 116 pp.
Eyes on Text: Eye movements in reading and language processing
Cengiz Acartürk
Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science, which consists of linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, education in its corners. The book… read more[Natural Language Processing, 16] 2025. xiii, 342 pp.
Humans, Machines, and Embedded Translation
Edited by Jean Nitzke and Sandra L. Halverson
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 8:2 (2025) v, 193 pp.
Modality in the Architecture of Language
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Manuela Caterina Moroni
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 7:1/2 (2025) v, 207 pp.
Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis
Shoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka and John M. Norris
This book addresses the topic of cognitive task complexity as it has been investigated in second language (L2) task-based research. This interest is premised on the notion that communication tasks may differ systematically in the types and amounts of cognitive complexity they present to L2… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 18] 2025. xi, 295 pp.
Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy
Giorgia Mannaioli
The book presents an integrated model of vagueness as an implicit and persuasive strategy, pervasive in everyday language use and public discourse. It considers three macro-dimensions of the phenomenon: linguistic-theoretical, psychological, and social-discursive. It shows how vagueness can be… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 350] 2025. ix, 272 pp.
Beyond Disfluency: The interplay of speech, gesture, and interaction
Loulou Kosmala
This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis)fluency, evaluating fluency across three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an extensive video dataset covering different languages and speech genres in French and English, the present research goes beyond… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 11] 2024. xii, 264 pp.
Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description
Edited by Mario Serrano-Losada and Daniela Pettersson-Traba
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 (2024) vi, 249 pp.
Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 (2024) vi, 114 pp.
The Evolution of Expletives: Theoretical and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Eric Fuß and Benjamin L. Sluckin
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 (2024) v, 243 pp.
Language Acquisition in Romance Languages
Edited by Vicenç Torrens
The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] 2024. viii, 308 pp.
Multifaceted Multilingualism
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 66] 2024. x, 434 pp.
Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity
Edited by Elena Babatsouli
The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 67] 2024. ix, 645 pp.
Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll
Edited by Lindsay Hracs
Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research, the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information available to first and second language learners, as well as to shed light on how that information is used to solve a variety of learning problems. The… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 69] 2024. viii, 275 pp.
Processing in Bilingual Children
Edited by Chantal van Dijk, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 (2024) v, 174 pp.
The Representation and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words
Edited by Lori Buchanan and Roberto G. de Almeida
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:2 (2024) v, 151 pp.
Translation and Interpreting at the Interface of Cognition and Emotion
Edited by Ana María Rojo López and Purificación Meseguer Cutillas
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 7:1 (2024) v, 185 pp.
Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Language Learning: The need for attention
Ulf Schütze
It is intriguing and challenging to learn a language by diving into the worlds of Virtual Reality (3-D environments, avatars, games) and Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, agents). What are the issues and benefits of these technological innovations? Taking readers on a journey through the brain,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 19] 2024. xv, 146 pp.
Words in the World
Edited by Laura Teddiman, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:1 (2024) vi, 188 pp.
The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rules and regularities in first and second languages
Stefano Rastelli
Speakers and learners, based on memory and experience, implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together. However, they also understand, through abstract and frequency-independent categories, why some combinations are possible and others are not. The frequency-grammar interface… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 20] 2024. xii, 226 pp.
Bilingualism through the Prism of Psycholinguistics: In honour of Albert Costa
Edited by Mikel Santesteban, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Cristina Baus
Professor Albert Costa (1970-2018) was one of the most influential scholars in the fields of psycholinguistics and bilingualism. This book provides a faithful look at the most relevant lines of research in which he worked during his academic career. Written by some of his close collaborators and… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 17] 2023. vi, 297 pp.
Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Early Twenty First Century
Edited by Adolfo M. García, Edinson Muñoz and Néstor Singer
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 6:2 (2023) v, 166 pp.
Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Marc Brysbaert
A great majority of people around the world know more than one language. So, how does knowing one language affect the learning and use of additional languages? The question of cross-language influences is the focus of this book. Do bilinguals hear, understand, and produce language and meaning… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 16] 2023. vi, 321 pp.
Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and methodological implications
Silvia Silleresi
This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies. It includes six chapters that cover: a review… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 68] 2023. xxi, 265 pp.
Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 (2023) vi, 132 pp.
Perception, Culture and Language
Edited by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar Szabó
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:2 (2023) vi, 239 pp.
Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region
Edited by Satomi Kawaguchi, Bruno Di Biase and Yumiko Yamaguchi
This PALART volume makes an original addition to the Series as it opens a stimulating window on the Asia-Pacific region of the world by bringing together a great deal of empirical and theoretical new work in Second Language Acquisition within the Processability Theory (PT) framework. Readers will… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 9] 2023. vii, 309 pp.
Structural Priming in the Grammatical Network
Tobias Ungerer
This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network. To explore the organisation of this network, the author examines evidence from structural priming, which occurs when speakers’… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 35] 2023. xiii, 236 pp.
Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition
Edited by Nadine Kolb, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:5 (2023) v, 136 pp.
Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok
Edited by Gigi Luk, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy
Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 64] 2023. vi, 394 pp.
What can metacognition teach us about the evolution of communication?
Edited by Joëlle Proust
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5:1 (2023) v, 101 pp.
Autism, Language, Communication and Cognition
Edited by Stephanie Durrleman
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:1 (2022) v, 151 pp.
Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan
Julia Herschensohn
How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages? Language development and processing are the central topics that this book explores, initially in terms of first language(s) and then in terms… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 15] 2022. xxi, 292 pp.
Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 (2022) vi, 102 pp.
Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space
Edited by Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli
Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:4 (2022) v, 164 pp.
Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications
Edited by Katherine Messenger
Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds has added to our understanding of the mechanisms and stages of… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 31] 2022. viii, 226 pp.
Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change
Edited by Maria Rita Manzini
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.
Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia
Rachel Hatchard
Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based, generative theory, and summarizes key shortcomings with this approach.… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 31] 2021. xx, 311 pp.
Developments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Edited by Kairong Xiao and Sandra L. Halverson
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 (2021) vi, 278 pp.
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition: A language processing perspective
Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 8] 2021. xv, 274 pp.
Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 (2021) vi, 129 pp.
Formal Language Theory and its Relevance for Linguistic Analysis
Edited by Diego Gabriel Krivochen
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:2 (2021) v, 134 pp.
Input Processing and Processing Instruction: The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Alessandro G. Benati
Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book, new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed within this framework. Each study in the book explores how input… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 11] 2021. xv, 185 pp.
Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29] 2021. vi, 333 pp.
Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions
Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman
From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within the field and generate a deeper understanding of key issues and… read more[Not in series, 238] 2021. viii, 229 pp.
Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning
Edited by Edith Kaan and Theres Grüter
There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 12] 2021. xiii, 234 pp.
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children
Edited by Leigh B. Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen
How do production and comprehension processes interact in the bilingual brain during language interaction? Most experimental and theoretical research in psycholinguistics to date has focused on investigating the mechanisms that underlie language production and language comprehension separately.… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 117] 2021. vi, 272 pp.
Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten
Edited by Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong
This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former students of Bill VanPatten from the past three decades, and the collection of articles is intended as a… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 62] 2021. viii, 359 pp.
Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses
Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino
Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach, grounded in 40 years of empirical… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 24] 2021. xxv, 598 pp.
Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow
Edited by Wei-lun Lu and Jirí Lukl
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn
Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey
In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c)… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] 2020. ix, 330 pp.
Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck
This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single, monolithic system of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 70] 2020. vii, 358 pp.
How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map
Edited by Michael A. Arbib
How did humans evolve biologically so that our brains and social interactions could support language processes, and how did cultural evolution lead to the invention of languages (signed as well as spoken)? This book addresses these questions through comparative (neuro)primatology – comparative… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 112] 2020. vii, 393 pp.
Language Processing in Advanced Learners of English: A multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data
Marco Schilk
The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the lexicon has been mainly studied based on English native speakers,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 9] 2020. xvii, 293 pp.
Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty
Edited by Andrea Padovan
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 (2020) v, 111 pp.
Mental representations in receptive multilingualism
Edited by Bonnie C. Holmes and Michael T. Putnam
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:3 (2020) v, 132 pp.
Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives
Edited by John Barnden and Andrew Gargett
This collection contains a selection of recent work on people’s production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumstances… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 10] 2020. viii, 549 pp.
Semantics and Psychology of Complex Words
Edited by Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 15:1 (2020) v, 160 pp.
Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise
Edited by Livio Gaeta
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:2 (2020) v, 103 pp.
Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax
Edited by Vincent Torrens
The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 64] 2020. vi, 305 pp.
Visual Metaphors
Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020) vi, 274 pp.
Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages
Edited by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book… read more
Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese
Edited by Dingfang Shu, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang
Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers, within a cognitive-linguistic framework, this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language, including noun-verb inclusion, the conceptual spatialization of actions, existential… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 67] 2019. xv, 313 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 (2019) iv, 132 pp.
The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. xv, 327 pp.
Perception Metaphors
Edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid
Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19] 2019. vii, 382 pp.
Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen
Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded in… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 65] 2019. xii, 315 pp.
Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children
Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.
Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 (2019) v, 162 pp.
Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures
Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis
Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions. While wine appreciation is traditionally characterized as joyously convivial in its social… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21] 2019. xii, 234 pp.
Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy: In honour of Peter Skehan
Edited by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian
This volume honours Peter Skehan’s landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as cutting-edge new research studies, all reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current research, such as the role and nature of… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 13] 2019. xxiii, 328 pp.
Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor
Bodo Winter
One of the most fundamental capacities of language is the ability to express what speakers see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Sensory Linguistics is the interdisciplinary study of how language relates to the senses. This book deals with such foundational questions as: Which semiotic strategies do… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 20] 2019. xiv, 289 pp.
Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics
Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle
Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney;… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 11] 2019. vi, 185 pp.
Teachability and Learnability across Languages
Edited by Ragnar Arntzen, Gisela Håkansson, Arnstein Hjelde and Jörg-U. Keßler
Teachability and Learnability across Languages addresses key issues in second, foreign and heritage language acquisition, as well as in language teaching. Focusing on a Processability Theory perspective, it brings together empirical studies of language acquisition, language teaching, and language… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 6] 2019. vii, 263 pp.
What is a verb? – Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languages
Edited by Eva Smolka and Dorit Ravid
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 14:2 (2019) v, 164 pp.
Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues
Edited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos
This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA. It is distinctive in two ways. It offers PT-insiders a way to see connections between their familiar traditions and theories with other ways of working. Parallel to this it offers readers who work… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 7] 2019. ix, 404 pp.
Attention to Metaphor: From neurons to representations
Valentina Cuccio
The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed a fundamental scientific discovery: the identification of mirror neurons and, consequently, the development of the Embodied Simulation theory. Neuroscientific data on the mechanism of Embodied Simulation and its role in conceptual and… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 7] 2018. vi, 167 pp.
Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields
Edited by David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice
This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 54] 2018. vi, 403 pp.
The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.
The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals: Economy and bilingual first language acquisition
Emma Ticio Quesada
This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 56] 2018. xi, 244 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 (2018) iv, 145 pp.
Eye Tracking and Multidisciplinary Studies on Translation
Edited by Callum Walker and Federico M. Federici
Through cohesive yet wide-ranging contributions focused on the rapidly growing area of eye tracking in Translation Studies, this volume provides readers with an insightful cross-section of the state of the art in this multidisciplinary field. Showcasing the great potential and challenges of this… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 143] 2018. vi, 295 pp.
Eye-tracking in Interaction: Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue
Edited by Geert Brône and Bert Oben
This volume presents a state-of-the-art of current research on the role of eye gaze in different types of interaction, including human-human and human-computer interaction. Approaching the phenomenon from different disciplinary and methodological angles, the chapters in the volume are united… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 10] 2018. vi, 329 pp.
Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages
Edited by Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach
In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 247] 2018. xii, 311 pp.
Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research
Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners
Edited by Maya Hickmann †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa
Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 22] 2018. x, 444 pp.
Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1 (2018) v, 187 pp.
Visual Metaphor: Structure and process
Edited by Gerard J. Steen
Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication, including gesture and body language, sound and music, and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 18] 2018. vii, 198 pp.
Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages
Edited by Hye K. Pae
This book provides readers with a unique array of scholarly reflections on the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in relation to reading processes and data-driven interpretations of cross-language transfer. Distinctively broad in scope, topics addressed in this volume include word… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 7] 2018. xii, 466 pp.
The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
Michael Fortescue
The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 94] 2017. vi, 192 pp.
Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon
Edited by Maya Libben, Mira Goral and Gary Libben †
In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism. Thus, the default mental lexicon may in fact be the bilingual lexicon. More than ever, social and technological innovation have created a situation in which lexical knowledge may change dramatically throughout an individual’s… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 6] 2017. xvii, 252 pp.
Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman
Edited by Lourdes Ortega and ZhaoHong Han
This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 48] 2017. xv, 234 pp.
Developmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven
Edited by Eliane Segers and Paul van den Broek
Research on the development on written language and literacy is inherently multidisciplinary. In this book, leading researchers studying brain, cognition and behavior, come together in revealing how children develop written language and literacy, why they may experience difficulties, and which… read more[Not in series, 206] 2017. xi, 447 pp.
Growing Old with Two Languages: Effects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging
Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan
This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism. With ongoing media focus on the aging population and the need for activities to forestall cognitive decline, experiences that… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 53] 2017. vi, 304 pp.
Irony in Language Use and Communication
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston
The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies,… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 1] 2017. x, 282 pp.
L3 Syntactic Transfer: Models, new developments and implications
Edited by Tanja Angelovska and Angela Hahn
This book fills an existing gap in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) by bringing together theoretical, empirical, and practical accounts that contribute to informed teaching practices in multilingual classrooms. The volume is organised into three sections that focus on prominent… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 5] 2017. x, 329 pp.
Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017
Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.
Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches
Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano
This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality –according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] 2017. xiii, 479 pp.
Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World
Edited by Marcus Callies and Alexander Onysko
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:1 (2017) v, 169 pp.
Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Edited by F. Nihan Ketrez, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek
Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child. The chapters in this volume highlight several such factors as potential contributors to developmental change, including factors that examine the role of immediate… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 21] 2017. xii, 242 pp.
Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure
Viviana Masia
The book tackles the sociobiological bases of Information Structure (IS) inquiring both its evidential and neurobiological underpinnings in human communication. Its purpose is to delve into the epistemic and neurocognitive rationales behind the realization of informational hierarchies in a sentence. read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 9] 2017. xxi, 193 pp.
Understanding Second Language Processing: A focus on Processability Theory
Bronwen Patricia Dyson and Gisela Håkansson
This book aims to help researchers and teachers interested in language processing and Processability Theory (PT) to understand this theory and its applications. PT is an influential account of second language processing which hypothesizes that, due to the architecture of language processing,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 4] 2017. xi, 211 pp.
Aging and Bilingualism
Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 (2016) vi, 226 pp.
Bilingualism and Executive Function: An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina and Lauren Spradlin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 (2016) vi, 213 pp.
Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion, and their connection with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 235] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.
Cognition, Language and Aging
Edited by Heather Harris Wright
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including… read more
Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] 2016. xvii, 453 pp.
Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition
Edited by Gisela Granena, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz
Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing. The book brings together theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of cognitive IDs, as well as empirical studies… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 3] 2016. vi, 353 pp.
Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts
Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz
This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy. It includes broad spectrum of languages and reflects a new generation of conceptualizations of cross-linguistic transfer, offering a different level of complexity by… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 89] 2016. ix, 183 pp.
Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages
Edited by Jörg-U. Keßler, Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner
This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It engages with current issues in both theory… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 5] 2016. xviii, 244 pp. | open access
Linguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing
Edited by Harald Clahsen, Vera Heyer and Jana Reifegerste
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:2 (2016) v, 168 pp.
New Questions for the Next Decade
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Victor Kuperman
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:3 (2016) v, 165 pp.
Reembedding Translation Process Research
Edited by Ricardo Muñoz Martín
Reembedding Translation Process Research is a rich collection of empirical research papers investigating important new facets of the relationship between translation and cognition. The common thread running through the collection is the notion of “re-embedding” the acts of translating and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 128] 2016. v, 218 pp.
Starting Over – The Language Development in Internationally-Adopted Children
Edited by Fred Genesee and Audrey Delcenserie
Internationally-adopted children are a unique population of language learners. They discontinue acquisition of their birth language when they are adopted by families that speak other languages. Their unique language learning history raises important practical, clinical and theoretical issues.… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 18] 2016. vii, 208 pp.
Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Edited by Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker
Visually Situated Language Comprehension has been compiled as a state-of the-art introduction to real-time language processing in visually-situated contexts. It covers the history of this emergent field, explains key methodological developments and discusses the insights these methods have enabled… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] 2016. x, 358 pp.
The Acquisition of Reference
Edited by Ludovica Serratrice and Shanley E.M. Allen
Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children’s major linguistic achievements. The 13 chapters of this volume bring together a wealth of information on the acquisition of referential processes in… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 15] 2015. vi, 339 pp.
Describing Cognitive Processes in Translation: Acts and events
Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova, Séverine Hubscher-Davidson and Ulf Norberg
This volume addresses translation as an act and an event, having as its main focus the cognitive and mental processes of the translating or interpreting individual in the act of translating, while opening up wider perspectives by including the social situation in explorations of the translation… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 77] 2015. v, 151 pp.
Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application
Edited by Ulrike M. Lüdtke
The miracle of children's language development and the joy of expressive language on the one hand and the vulnerability of language and the sorrow and grief caused by its distortion or even loss in people with aphasia or dementia on the other hand show us the inseparability of emotion and language… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 10] 2015. xi, 458 pp.
Interaction and Second Language Development: A Vygotskian perspective
Rémi A. van Compernolle
This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship between the external-social world and individual mental functioning, the… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 44] 2015. xi, 215 pp.
Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning
Joe Barcroft
This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to lexical input processing (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 43] 2015. xi, 194 pp.
Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Edited by Gonia Jarema and Gary Libben †
The human ability to understand and produce spoken words is fascinating in its complexity. People often vary in how they pronounce a word. They may need to recognize words spoken with an accent quite different from their own. And, in order to understand a word of a second or foreign language, they… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 80] 2015. ix, 233 pp.
Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults
Gunter Senft
This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate… read more
Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory
Edited by Kristof Baten, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe
This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 4] 2015. vii, 273 pp.
Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development
Edited by Hagen Peukert
This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 4] 2015. ix, 353 pp.
Bridging the Methodological Divide: Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to formulaic language
Edited by Stefanie Wulff and Debra Titone
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:3 (2014) v, 126 pp.
Input and Experience in Bilingual Development
Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis
Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus of much recent research on childhood bilingualism. This volume… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 13] 2014. ix, 204 pp.
Parsing to Learn
Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.
Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: “More than Meats the Eye”
Sylvia Jaki
The major purpose of newspaper headlines is to trigger the reader’s interest. A popular way to achieve this goal is the use of phraseological modifications. Based on previous findings from various linguistic disciplines, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on the… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 46] 2014. xvi, 243 pp.
Semantic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:1 (2014) iii, 140 pp.
Structuring the Argument: Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure
Edited by Asaf Bachrach, Isabelle Roy and Linnaea Stockall
While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 10] 2014. vii, 205 pp.
Words & Constructions: Language complexity in linguistics and psychology
Edited by Juhani Järvikivi, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matti Laine
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:2 (2014) v, 230 pp.
Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese: Revised edition
Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor
The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, this book: (1) examines the three East Asian scripts (and English) together in relation to each other, and (2) discusses how these scripts are, and… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 14] 2014. xix, 487 pp.
The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners
Kristof Baten
This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 2] 2013. xvii, 304 pp.
Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication
Edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp
Alignment in Communication is a novel direction in communication research, which focuses on interactive adaptation processes assumed to be more or less automatic in humans. It offers an alternative to established theories of human communication and also has important implications for human-machine… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 6] 2013. viii, 231 pp.
The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition: The Multiple Constraints Hypothesis
Anke Lenzing
Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition focuses on the acquisition process of early L2 learners. It is based on the following key hypothesis: the initial mental grammatical system of L2… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 3] 2013. xx, 280 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3 (2013) iv, 131 pp.
Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora
Edited by Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylvie De Cock
The papers brought together in this volume illustrate how spoken corpora (be they native or learner corpora) can provide insights into various aspects of errors and disfluencies such as pauses and discourse markers. They show, among others, that such phenomena can be influenced by factors like… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 52] 2013. v, 172 pp.
First Language Attrition
Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke
This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition. It presents an overview of current research, methodological issues and important questions regarding first language attrition. In particular, it addresses the two… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 48] 2013. v, 159 pp.
Neural Correlates of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 8:2 (2013) v, 152 pp.
Phonological and Phonetic considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 8:3 (2013) iii, 213 pp.
Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
Edited by Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker
This book represents the state of the art on rightward movement in one thematically coherent volume. It documents the growing importance of the combination of empirical and theoretical work in linguistic analysis. Several contributions argue that rightward movement is a means of reducing… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] 2013. viii, 476 pp.
Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment
Edited by Gisela Granena and Mike Long
Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.e., the age at which learners are first meaningfully exposed to the L2, as robust predictors of rate of classroom language learning and level of ultimate L2 attainment in naturalistic settings,… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 35] 2013. xv, 295 pp.
Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures
Edited by Scott Jarvis and Michael Daller
Language researchers and practitioners often adopt tools and techniques without testing whether they really work as they should. This is understandable because most scholars do not have the time or expertise to properly evaluate the usefulness of all instruments, measures, and methods they need. It… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 47] 2013. viii, 220 pp.
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research
Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury
The study of how words are represented and processed in the mind has served as a meeting ground for research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Right now, this domain of study is in the midst of astonishing developments. At the core of these developments are the methodological and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 47] 2012. x, 465 pp.
Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective
Edited by Andrea C. Schalley
There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguistics is an ‘empirical science’. This volume argues for a nuanced view, highlighting that theory and practice necessarily and as a matter of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 40] 2012. xi, 338 pp.
Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood
Edited by Jennifer Cabrelli, Suzanne Flynn and Jason Rothman
In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume’s authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 46] 2012. vii, 312 pp.
Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
The theoretical proposals brought forward in this book as well as the results from the reported experimental studies present genuine contributions to the biolinguistic program. The papers contribute to our understanding of the properties of the computations and the representations derived by the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 194] 2012. vi, 367 pp
Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research: Insights from Psycholinguistics
Edited by Pavel Trofimovich and Kim McDonough
This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension, production, and acquisition of second language (L2) phonology, syntax, and lexicon. The term priming refers to the phenomenon in which prior exposure to specific language forms or meanings… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 30] 2011. ix, 254 pp.
Distributed Language
Edited by Stephen J. Cowley
The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially ‘symbolic’, not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 34] 2011. ix, 220 pp.
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part II)
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Chris Westbury
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 6:1 (2011) v, 196 pp.
Second Language Task Complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance
Edited by Peter Robinson
Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 2] 2011. xii, 345 pp.
Studying Processability Theory: An Introductory Textbook
Edited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler
Processability Theory (PT) as developed by Manfred Pienemann is a prominent theory of second language acquisition. PT serves as a framework for a wide range of research covering issues, including L2 processing, interlanguage variation, typological effects on SLA, L1 transfer, pidgins and creoles,… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 1] 2011. xi, 179 pp.
Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition: Inside the learner's mind
Edited by Martin Pütz and Laura Sicola
This edited volume represents state of the field research linking cognition and second language acquisition, reflecting the experience of the learner when engaged in noticing, input/output processing, retrieval, and even attrition of target forms. Contributions are both theoretical and practical,… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 13] 2010. vii, 373 pp.
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research
Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research provides students and researchers interested in language acquisition with comprehensible and practical information on the most frequently used methods in language acquisition research. It includes contributions on first and child/adult second… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 27] 2010. vii, 292 pp.
Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems
Edited by Michèle Kail and Maya Hickmann †
How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 52] 2010. vii, 330 pp.
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I)
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Chris Westbury
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 5:3 (2010) v, 188 pp.
The Processing of Events
Oliver Bott
Synthesizing ideas from event semantics and psycholinguistics, this monograph provides a new perspective on the processing of linguistic aspect and aspectual coercion. Confronting alternative semantic accounts with experimental evidence, the author develops a comprehensive model of online aspectual… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 162] 2010. xvii, 383 pp.
Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing
Edited by Bill VanPatten and Jill Jegerski
This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e. read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 53] 2010. vii, 351 pp.
Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study
Svenja Völkel
This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Völkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a… read more[Culture and Language Use, 2] 2010. xv, 272 pp.
Translation and Cognition
Edited by Gregory M. Shreve and Erik Angelone
Translation and Cognition assesses the state of the art in cognitive translation and interpreting studies by examining three important trends: methodological innovation, the evolution of research design, and the continuing integration of translation process research results with the core findings… read more[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, XV] 2010. vi, 381 pp.
Words and their meaning: A deep delve from surface distribution intounderlying neural representation
Edited by Merle Horne and Mikael Roll
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 5:2 (2010) v, 118 pp.
Connected Words: Word associations and second language vocabulary acquisition
Paul Meara
What words come into your head when you think of SUN? For native English speakers, the most common responses are MOON, SHINE and HOT, and about half of all native speaker responses to SUN are covered by these three words. L2 English speakers are much less obliging, and produce patterns of… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 24] 2009. xvii, 174 pp.
Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages
Michel Paradis
This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages, followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It examines, within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 40] 2009. xii, 219 pp.
The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition
Edited by Larissa Aronin and Britta Hufeisen
This volume offers an ontogenetic perspective on research on L3, multilingualism and multiple languages acquisition and a conceptually updated picture of multilingualism studies and third/multiple language acquisition studies. The contributions by prominent scholars of multilingualism present… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 6] 2009. vii, 167 pp.
Grammar as Processor: A Distributed Morphology account of spontaneous speech errors
Roland Pfau
Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 137] 2009. xiii, 372 pp.
Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development
Edited by John Grinstead
This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 50] 2009. xix, 304 pp.
More Support for More-Support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms
Britta Mondorf
This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands –… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 4] 2009. xi, 222 pp.
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching
Edited by Ludmila Isurin, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot
The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 41] 2009. xviii, 364 pp.
Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution
Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani
Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the apex of the uniquely-human language faculty – evolutionary but somehow immune to adaptive… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 85] 2009. vi, 553 pp.
Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics. In honor of D. Terence Langendoen
Edited by William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar
This volume is a collection of papers that highlights some recurring themes that have surfaced in the generative tradition in linguistics over the past 40 years. The volume is more than a historical take on a theoretical tradition; rather, it is also a "compass" pointing to exciting new empirical… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 135] 2009. xiv, 265 pp.
Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen
How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context? This volume introduces readers to an emerging field of research, experimental developmental psycholinguistics, and to… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 44] 2008. xviii, 190 pp.
Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer
Edited by Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher
Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies and looks at them from an intercultural perspective by bringing together renowned scholars from the fields of philosophy, sociology,… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 5] 2008. xii, 357 pp.
Early Language Development: Bridging brain and behaviour
Edited by Angela D. Friederici and Guillaume Thierry
This book establishes a dialog between experimental psychology and electrophysiology in the study of infant language development. On the one hand, traditional methods of investigation into language development have reached a high level of refinement despite being confined to observing infants’… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 5] 2008. xiv, 263 pp.
Emotion words in the monolingual and bilingual lexicon
Edited by Jeanette Altarriba, Aneta Pavlenko and Norman Segalowitz
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 3:1 (2008) 156 pp.
Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics: Volume 1: An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata, Volume 2: Applications in Linguistic Theory, Volume 3: Psycholinguistic Applications
Willem J.M. Levelt
Almost four decades have passed since Formal Grammars first appeared in 1974. At that time it was still possible to rather comprehensively review for (psycho)linguists the relevant literature on the theory of formal languages and automata, on their applications in linguistic theory and in the… read more[Not in series, 144] 2008. viii, 585 pp.
Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor
Silvina Montrul
Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 39] 2008. x, 312 pp.
An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata
Willem J.M. Levelt
The present text is a re-edition of Volume I of Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, a three-volume work published in 1974. This volume is an entirely self-contained introduction to the theory of formal grammars and automata, which hasn’t lost any of its relevance. Of course, major… read more[Not in series, 143] 2008. xi, 139 pp.
L2 Vocabulary: The interface between learning and representation
Edited by Joe Barcroft and Gretchen L. Sunderman
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 3:3 (2008) 177 pp.
The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity
Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen
The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 12] 2008. xiii, 391 pp.
Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Barbara Köpke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer and Susan Dostert
This collection of articles provides theoretical foundations and perspectives for language attrition research. Its purpose is to enable investigations of L1 attrition to avail themselves more fully and more fundamentally of the theoretical frameworks that have been formulated with respect to SLA… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 33] 2007. vii, 258 pp.
Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning
Mick Randall
This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology, word recognition and semantics, examining ‘bottom-up’ decoding… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 19] 2007. x, 220 pp.
Introduction to Neurolinguistics
Elisabeth Ahlsén
This introduction to neurolinguistics is intended for anybody who wants to acquire a grounding in the field. It was written for students of linguistics and communication disorders, but students of psychology, neuroscience and other disciplines will also find it valuable. The introductory section… read more[Not in series, 134] 2006. xii, 212 pp.
Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling
Edited by António Branco, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov
Anaphora processing is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. The correct interpretation of anaphora has also become increasingly important for real-world natural language processing applications, including machine… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 263] 2005. x, 449 pp.
Controversies and Subjectivity
Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Marcelo Dascal †
This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of ‘I’ and ‘self’. From both theoretical and historical… read more[Controversies, 1] 2005. x, 411 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory
Edited by Manfred Pienemann
Seven years ago Manfred Pienemann proposed a novel psycholinguistic theory of language development, Processability Theory (PT). This volume examines the typological plausibility of PT. Focusing on the acquisition of Arabic, Chinese and Japanese the authors demonstrate the capacity of PT to make… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 30] 2005. xiv, 303 pp.
Developmental Theory and Language Disorders
Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller
The chapters in this volume arise from presentations at a unique conference on typical and atypical language development held in Madison, USA in 2002. This joint meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 4] 2005. x, 217 pp.
Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, context-free naming units
Pavol Štekauer
This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 54] 2005. xxii, 288 pp.
Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language
Edited by Rod Ellis
The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 11] 2005. viii, 313 pp.
Inference and Anticipation in Simultaneous Interpreting: A probability-prediction model
Ghelly V. Chernov
Until now, Ghelly Chernov’s work on the theory of simultaneous interpretation (SI) was mostly accessible only to a Russian-speaking readership. Finally, Chernov’s major work, originally published in Russia in 1987 under the title Основы Синхронного Перевода (Introduction to Simultaneous… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 57] 2004. xxx, 266 pp.
A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism
Michel Paradis
This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 18] 2004. viii, 299 pp.
Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition
Geoff Jordan
Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory proliferation, contradicting theories, and theory domain, hinder progress… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 8] 2004. xviii, 294 pp.
Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology
Edited by Joseph Shimron
This book puts together contributions of linguists and psycholinguists whose main interest here is the representation of Semitic words in the mental lexicon of Semitic language speakers. The central topic of the book confronts two views about the morphology of Semitic words. The point of the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 28] 2003. vi, 394 pp.
Narrative Intelligence
Edited by Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers
Narrative Intelligence (NI) — the confluence of narrative, Artificial Intelligence, and media studies — studies, models, and supports the human use of narrative to understand the world. This volume brings together established work and founding documents in Narrative Intelligence to form a common… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 46] 2003. viii, 342 pp.
Triangulating Translation: Perspectives in process oriented research
Edited by Fabio Alves
This book contains a selection of papers presented in a subsection on translation process analysis at the II Brazilian International Translators' Forum, held on 23-27 July 2001. The volume builds on the notion of triangulation, i.e., the combined use of different methods of data elicitation and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 45] 2003. x, 163 pp.
Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language
Edited by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale and Dilworth B. Parkinson
Analogical Modeling (AM) is an exemplar-based general theory of description that uses both neighbors and non-neighbors (under certain well-defined conditions of homogeneity) to predict language behavior. This book provides a basic introduction to AM, compares the theory with nearest-neighbor… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 10] 2002. x, 416 pp.
The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language
Edited by T. Givón and Bertram F. Malle
The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 53] 2002. x, 394 pp.
The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues
Edited by Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson
Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 4] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
Pronouns – Grammar and Representation
Edited by Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese
The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 52] 2002. xii, 294 pp.
Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies
Edited by Max M. Louwerse and Willie van Peer
Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of ‘themes’ in texts and how they are structured in… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 3] 2002. x, 448 pp.
Empty Categories in Sentence Processing
Sam Featherston
This book reports a research program into one of the most controversial questions in the syntax — processing interface: The behavior of the parser at gap positions. While the work done is largely experimental, the results are analyzed both for their relevance to sentence processing and for their… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 43] 2001. xvi, 277 pp.
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 45] 2001. vii, 492 pp.
New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky
Edited by Robert L. Cooper, Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters
This formidable selection of papers reflects the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic underpinnings of the interface between language and education. Following an introduction that positions the field of educational linguistics historically and conceptually, the volume presents 15 contributions by… read more[Not in series, 104] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
Why We Curse: A neuro-psycho-social theory of speech
Timothy Jay
Psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and speech pathologists currently have no coherent theory to explain why we curse and why we choose the words we do when we curse. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and… read more[Not in series, 91] 2000. xv, 328 pp.
Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox
Cognitive linguistics is nothing if not an interdisciplinary and comparative enterprise. This collection addresses both the implications OF and the implications FOR cognitive linguistics of psycholinguistic, computational, neuroscientific, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 152] 1999. vii, 338 pp.
The Japanese Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistic Studies of Kana and Kanji processing
Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto
This book surveys the psycholinguistic dimensions of lexical access to the mental lexicon in Japanese, and attempts to synthesize the diversity of Japanese psycholinguistic research into the nature of written word processing in Japanese. Ten chapters focus on the nature of such psycholinguistic… read more[Not in series, 95] 1999. x, 268 pp.
Linguistic Attractors: The cognitive dynamics of language acquisition and change
David L. Cooper
The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 2] 1999. xv, 375 pp.
Simultaneous Interpretation: A cognitive-pragmatic analysis
Robin Setton
Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human cognitive/linguistic activities. This study, which will interest practitioners and trainers as well as linguists, draws more on linguistics-based theories of cognition in communication (cognitive semantics and pragmatics) than on the… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 28] 1999. xv, 397 pp.
Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics
Edited by George Wolf and Nigel Love
Roy Harriss thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 148] 1997. xxviii, 344 pp.
Coherence in Spontaneous Text
Edited by Morton Ann Gernsbacher and T. Givón
The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 31] 1995. x, 267 pp.
Lexical Issues in Language Learning
Birgit Harley
The nine major empirical studies of Lexical Issues in Language Learning address key issues in the development and use of vocabulary by child bilinguals and older second language learners. The thematic focus in this collection of Language Learning articles is on the assessment of lexical development… read more[Best of Language Learning, 2] 1995. iv, 318 pp.
Bilingual Performance in Reading and Writing
Edited by Alister Cumming
In the past decade, literacy in second language has emerged as one of the most significant and intriguing topics of inquiry into language processes, human knowledge, cultural practices, and educational policy. Whereas earlier inquiry, theories and policies had often considered literacy and… read more[Best of Language Learning, 1] 1994. vi, 378 pp.
Japanese Psycholinguistics: A classified and annotated research bibliography
Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto
This classified and annotated research bibliography is meant to serve as an introduction to the rich field of Japanese psycholinguistics, by providing an exhaustive inventory of what has been done in or about Japanese in a psycholinguistic sense. Thus, this volume captures the tradition of… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 24] 1994. xii, 355 pp.
The Construct of Language Proficiency: Applications of psychological models to language assessment
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and John H.A.L. de Jong
This books aims to open up new perspectives in the study of language proficiency by bringing together current research from different fields in psychology and linguistics. All contributions start out from empirical studies, which are then related to applications in language assessment. The book… read more[Not in series, 62] 1992. viii, 212 pp.
Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets
Timothy Jay
This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing and language acquisitions, anger expresssion, gender stereotypes,… read more[Not in series, 57] 1992. viii, 272 pp.
The Focusing Hypothesis: The theory of left hemisphere lateralised language re-examined
Alison Wray
This book explores the nature of the control of language processing by the hemispheres of the neocortex. The author expounds a novel hypothesis, “The Focusing Hypothesis”, which holds that language processing in the brain is achieved through analytic and holistic systems, the former through left… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 3] 1992. xiv, 207 pp.
Psycholinguistics: Psychology, linguistics, and the study of natural language
Joseph F. Kess
This textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. It is directed at filling the reading needs of courses in departments of linguistics and of psychology, presenting an integrated overview of the ways in which both disciplines have… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 86] 1992. xiv, 383 pp.
A Case for Psycholinguistic Cases
Edited by Gabriela Appel and Hans W. Dechert
This volume comprises ten papers presented as plenary lectures on the occasion of the Second World Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) at the University of Kassel, Germany, from July 27 — 31, 1987. The articles collected in this volume focus on the production,… read more[Not in series, 46] 1991. viii, 195 pp.
Error Analysis: A comprehensive bibliography
Bernd Spillner
Errors are information. In contrastive linguistics, they are thought to be caused by unconscious transfer of mother tongue structures to the system of the target language and give information about both systems. In the interlanguage hypothesis of second language acquisition, errors are indicative… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 12] 1991. xxxix, 552 pp.
Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens: Reprint from the 1885 edition
Philipp Wegener (1848–1916)
Newly edited by Konrad Koerner (University of Ottawa), with an introduction by Clemens Knobloch (Universitat Siegen)The importance of Wegener's Untersuchungen uber die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens can only be compared to that of Karl Buhler's Sprachtheorie. Even now, however, Wegener's work remains… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 5] 1991. lii, viii, 214 pp.
Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 1
Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas
This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Volume I starts off with an overview of the field by G. Richard Tucker in which he identifies two areas: innovative language education and language education policy. The overal focus of… read more[Not in series, LKUL 1] 1990. xx, 508 pp.
Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 2
Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas
This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Whereas the focus of Volume I is on learning language and the standpoint of the individual learner, the contributions to Volume II are concerned not so much with individuals as with… read more[Not in series, LKUL 2] 1990. xvi, 488 pp.
Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas
This two-volume collection brings together papers first presented at the AILA Congress in 1987. In volume I, the overall focus is on the individual language learner, and how that individual develops a command of a language (first or second) in home and classroom settings. The papers in the second… read more[Not in series, LKUL S] 1990. xx, 508 + xvi, 488 pp.
Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language
Karl Bühler
Karl Bühler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of this century. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) has been praised widely and gained considerable recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. The work has,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 25] 1990. lxii, 508 pp.
Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
This major reference work fills a need long recognized in neurolinguistics: a source for analyzable speech transcripts from agrammatic aphasic patients that provides detailed grammatical descriptions and distributional analyses. This 3-volume set is unique in that it presents narrative speech from… read more[Not in series, 39] 1989. xxvii, 1985 pp., 3 Vols.
Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 3. Control Subjects
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
[Not in series, AA 3] 1989. xx, 594 pp.
Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 1
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
[Not in series, AA 1] 1989. xxvii, 816 pp.
Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 2
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
[Not in series, AA 2] 1989. xx, 575 pp.
Language and Schizophrenia
Janusz Wrobel
This book investigates the functioning of linguistic phenomena, especially in the area of semantics and pragmatics of the language of schizophrenics. By making semantics and pragmatics the primary objects of this work, the author departs from the traditional approach of those psycholinguistic and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 33] 1989. viii, 132 pp.
Normale und gestörte Kindersprache
Harald Clahsen
Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs. Er argumentiert fur einige zentrale Bestandteile einer solchen Theorie, die groîenteils im Kontext linguistischer Theoriebildung stehen. Fur diesen Zweck werden vergleichende… read more[Not in series, 33] 1988. ix, 340 pp.
Orthography and Phonology
Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff
Collected here are eleven papers devoted to various aspects of the orthography/phonology interface. Topics include spelling-to-sound correspondence for English, French, and Russian, the design of a generative phonology for orthography data-base access, the linguistic sign and orthographic and… read more[Not in series, 29] 1987. xi, 238 pp.
Constraints on Error Variables in Grammar: Bilingual misspelling orthographies
Philip A. Luelsdorff
An in-depth investigation of constraints on error variables in grammar with special reference to bilingual misspelling orthographies. A corpus of errors is examined in minute detail. In the course of this analysis, received categories and standard assumptions about linguistic errors are critically… read more[Not in series, 25] 1986. xix, 504 pp.
Questions on Social Explanation: Piagetian themes reconsidered
Edited by Luigia Camaioni and Claudia de Lemos
The various contributions to this volume converge on two themes. First, the explanatory role of social interaction, which, for a long time, has been a source of criticism of Piaget’s view of intelligence, is dealt with not only in relation to cognitive development, but also to language acquisition… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:4] 1985. viii, 141 pp.
The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought
Edited by Wolf Paprotté and René Dirven †
This volume brings together a number of articles representative of the present outlook on the importance of metaphors, and of the work done on metaphors in several domains of (psycho)linguistics. The first part of the volume deals with metaphor and the system of language. The second part offers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 29] 1985. iii, 628 pp.
Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication: Towards a biocybernetics of language
Thomas T. Ballmer
This is the second of two volumes – the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl’s Control and Ability (P&B III:4) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:7] 1982. x, 161 pp.
Ambiguity in Psycholinguistics
Joseph F. Kess and Ronald A. Hoppe
The authors present a comprehensive overview of past research in ambiguity in the field of psycholinguistics. Experimental results have often been equivocal in allowing a choice between the single-reading hypothesis and the multiple-reading hypothesis of processing of ambiguous sentences. This text… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:4] 1981. vi, 124 pp.
Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications
Edited by Gary D. Prideaux, Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker
Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities. In order to carry out experimental studies in language it is, of course, necessary to have a descriptive system for the stimuli, and formal linguistics has provided a plethora of alternative… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 3] 1980. vi, 321 pp.
Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die psychologischen Grundlagen der sprachlichen Analogiebildung (1901): New edition
Albert Thumb (1865–1915) and Karl Marbe (1869–1953)
Fac simile edition with a Foreword by E. F. K. Koerner and an Introduction by David J. Murray. The appendix contains Erwin A. Esper’s A Contribution to the Experimental Study of Analogy (1918). read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 1] 1978. lxiii, 108 pp.
Versprechen und Verlesen: Eine psychologisch-linguistische Studie. New edition
Rudolf Meringer (1859–1931) und Carl Mayer (1862–1936)
Versprechen und Verlesen (1895) is distinguished more by observational accuracy than by theoretical sophistication; but it is exactly this characteristic which has proved its lasting value. It is a scrupulously collected, usefully organized, and very large corpus of errors, providing material on… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 2] 1978. xl, xiv, 207 pp.