With Psycholinguistics in its fifth decade of existence, the second edition of the Handbook of Psycholinguistics represents a comprehensive survey of psycholinguistic theory, research and methodology, with special emphasis on the very best empirical research conducted in the past decade. Thirty leading experts have been brought together to present the reader with both broad and detailed current issues in Language Production, Comprehension and Development.

The handbook is an indispensible single-source guide for professional researchers, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, university and college teachers, and other professionals in the fields of psycholinguistics, language comprehension, reading, neuropsychology of language, linguistics, language development, and computational modeling of language. It will also be a general reference for those in neighboring fields such as cognitive and developmental psychology and education.

- Provides a complete account of psycholinguistic theory, research, and methodology - 30 of the field's foremost experts have contributed to this edition - An invaluable single-source reference

Preface.

1. Observations on the Past and Future of Psycholinguistics.

Section 1: Language Production

2. Properties of Spoken Language Production 3. Syntax and Production 4. Speech Disorders 5. Functional Neuroimaging in Speech Production Studies

Section 2: Language Comprehension

6. Speech Perception Within a Biologically-realistic Information-theoretic Framework. 7. The Perception of Speech 8. Spoken Word Recognition 9. Visual Word Recognition: The Journey from Features to Meaning (A Travel Update) 10. Lexical Processing and Sentence Context Effects 11. Semantic Memory 12. Syntactic Parsing 13. Prosody 14. The syntax-Semantic Interface: On-line Composition of Sentence Meaning 15. Constraint Satisfaction Accounts of Lexical and Sentence Comprehension 16. Eye-Movement Control in Reading 17. Psycholinguistics Electrified II 18. Discourse Comprehension 19. Neuroimaging Contributions to the Understanding of Discourse Processes 20. Comprehension Ability in Mature Readers 21. Figurative Language. 22. Eye Movements and Spoken Language Comprehension 23. Perspective taking and the Coordination of Meaning in Language Use 24. Comprehension Disorders in Aphasia: The Case of Sentences that Require Syntactic Analysis 25. Language Processing in Bilingual Speakers 26. Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Perspectives on Sign Languages

Section 3: Language Development

27. Learning Language in Infancy 28. Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics 29. Learning to Read 30. Cognitive and Linguistic Issues in the Study of Children with Specific Language Impairment