LINGUIST List 12.1998

Thu Aug 9 2001

Books: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Kimberly Kahn, Psycholinguistics: Cognitive Interfaces
2. Kimberly Kahn, Psycholinguistics: Linguistic Structure and Change
3. Kimberly Kahn, Second Language Acquisition: Bilingual Acquisition

COGNITIVE INTERFACES: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information
Emile van de Zee, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside, and
Edited by Urpo Nikanne, University of Oslo

This book brings new perspectives to bear on the architecture of the
mind and the relationship between language and cognition. It
considers how information is linked in the mind between different
cognitive and expressive levels - so that people can, for example,
talk about what they see and act upon what they hear - and how these
linkages are and need to be constrained. The book is concerned in
particular with the perception and representation of spatial
structure. The authors, all psychologists and linguists, show that
insights can be gained from the joint deployment of theoretical
linguistic and experimental psychological research and the value of a
multi-disciplinary approach to the study of mind, brain, and language.

April 2001 272 pp.; 45 line illus
0-19-829961-3 cloth $70.00
0-19-829962-1 paper $29.95
Oxford University Press
 
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LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE AND CHANGE: An Explanation from Language Processing
Thomas Berg, University of Hamburg

Thomas Berg analyzes language as a psychological phenomenon in order
to reach a clearer understanding of why the structure of language is
the way it is and how it changes. He claims that real explanations of
the structure of language can only emerge by establishing connections
between language and its context. The explanatory power of one of
these contexts, the psychological one, is examined in detail.

1998 (paper May 2001) 352 pp.; 4 line illus
0-19-829985-0 paper $27.95
0-19-823672-7 cloth $99.00
Oxford University Press
 
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BILINGUAL ACQUISITION: Theoretical Implications of a Case Study
Margaret Deuchar, University of Wales, Bangor, and 
Suzanne Quay, International Christian University, Tokyo

This book presents a case study in bilingual acquisition in a child
under the age of two and explores the case's implications for language
acquisition theory. The data collection methodology is fully
discussed, and the book includes an extensive list of the child's
words in English and Spanish.

2000 (paper June 2001) 176 pp.; 19 figs
0-19-829973-7 paper $18.95
0-19-823685-9 cloth $70.00
Oxford University Press
 
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