SubjectsLinguistics / Neurolinguistics
Book series
ISSN 2352-0531
Journals
Evolutionary Linguistic Theory
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Eric Fuß
ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
The Mental Lexicon
Edited by Harald Baayen, Melanie J. Bell, Jessica Nieder and Vito Pirrelli
ISSN 1871-1340 | E‑ISSN 1871‑1375
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
Autism, Language, Communication and Cognition
Edited by Stephanie Durrleman
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:1 (2022) v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space
Edited by Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Psycholinguistics
Coherence
T. Givón
Coherence, connectivity and the fitting together of smaller parts into larger structures and a coherent whole is the hallmark of complex biologically-based systems. As a structure-internal constraint, coherence makes it possible for the parts to work together as a whole. As an external constraint,… read more[Not in series, 230] 2020. xi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies | Philosophy | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
Visual Metaphors
Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020) vi, 274 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
Semantic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:1 (2014) iii, 140 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
Neural Correlates of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 8:2 (2013) v, 152 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
Phonological and Phonetic considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 8:3 (2013) iii, 213 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Neuropsychology | Psycholinguistics
Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution
Edited by Barbara Gorayska and Jacob L. Mey
This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline — a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new… read more[Not in series, 127] 2004. vi, 369 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 1
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23] 2001. xviii, 298 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 2
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 24] 2001. vi, 336 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23-24] 2001. xviii, 299 pp. & viii, 337 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Language Processing and Simultaneous Interpreting: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Kenneth Hyltenstam
This volume brings together papers from the areas of psychology, general linguistics, psycholinguistics, as well as from simultaneous interpreting. Their common focus is how theories and methodologies from various disciplines can be applied to the study of simultaneous interpreting, and also to… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 40] 2000. xvi, 164 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Interpreting | Neuropsychology
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.
Other subjects Neuropsychology | Psycholinguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language
Sydney M. Lamb
The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170] 1999. xii, 416 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neuropsychology
The Biology of Language
Stanislaw Puppel
This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the… read more[Not in series, 75] 1995. x, 300 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Theoretical linguistics
Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World
Lise Menn, Michael P. O’Connor, Loraine K. Obler and Audrey Holland
“Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World” is an up-to-date introduction to the language of patients with non-fluent aphasia. Recent research in languages other than English has challenged our old descriptions of aphasia syndromes: while their patterns can be recognized across languages, the… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 5] 1995. xvii, 212 pp.
Other subjects Language disorders & speech pathology
Reader in the History of Aphasia: From Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind
Edited by Paul Eling
The study of language and the brain is heavily dependent on the work of the early aphasiologists, and those wanting to get acquainted with the discipline will come across frequent references to these classic authors. This collection brings together seminal publications by 19th- and 20th-century… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 4] 1994. xvi, 392 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Language disorders & speech pathology | Neuropsychology
Confluence: Linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology
Edited by Fred Eckman
That linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology impinge on each other in areas of vital importance to each discipline seems to be almost undeniable. All three fields are concerned with the characterization of language in one form or another; and all deal with the acquisition of language by… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 4] 1993. xvi, 260 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Theoretical linguistics
Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical… read more[Not in series, 60] 1992. xxiv, 412 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Language disorders & speech pathology | Psycholinguistics
Intelligibility in Speech Disorders: Theory, measurement and management
Edited by Raymond D. Kent
The papers in this volume, written by authors experienced in intelligibility issues in speech pathology and related fields, describe the basic dimensions by which speech intelligibility can and must be understood. The dimensions are auditory perceptual, linguistic, acoustic and physiologic. These,… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 1] 1992. vi, 365 pp.
Other subjects Language disorders & speech pathology
Child Language and Developmental Dysphasia: Linguistic studies of the acquisition of German
Harald Clahsen
The subject of this two part work is the acquisition of language structure in which the development of syntax and morphology is examined by investigations on children without language problems and on children with developmental dysphasia. The author uses a comparative acquisition study to provide… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 2] 1991. x, 350 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition
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.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Neuropsychology | Philosophy | Psycholinguistics