In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This volume merges these two fields, addressing one of the tough problems dividing researchers in bilingualism, conceptually as well as methodologically. Joel Walters proposes a new approach to bilingualism processing - the Sociopragmatic-Psycholinguistic (SPPL) Model- which presents language as a social phenomenon. The author accomplishes this by identifying and organizing evidence from a wide range of linguistic disciplines, merging sociopragmatics, discourse analysis, and ethnography with social cognition, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. By extension, the author offers convincing explanations of how related fields can profit from a comprehensive bilingual processing model. As a result, Joel Walters delivers a well-organized, comprehensive model that is thought through at every level.
This book appeals to graduate students, scholars in the fields of linguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. It is useful to researchers for its comprehensiveness and methodological acumen and may be appropriate as a supplementary textbook for graduate-level courses in bilingualism or for seminars on similar topics.
Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence
relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship
between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a
relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of
the field's independent existence. At the beginning of the 21st
Century, psycholinguistics forms part of the rapidly developing
enterprise known as cognitive neuroscience, in which the relationship
between biology and behavior plays a central role. Psycholinguistics is
about language in communication, so that the relationship between
language production and comprehension has always been important, and as
psycholinguistics is an experimental discipline, it is likewise
essential to find the right relationship between model and experiment.
This book focuses in turn on each of these four cornerstone
relationships: Psychology and Linguistics, Biology and Behavior,
Production and Comprehension, and Model and Experiment. The authors are
from different disciplinary backgrounds, but share a commitment to
clarify the ways that their research illuminates the essential nature
of the psycholinguistic enterprise.
The Articulate Mammal - An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, chapter by chapter, The Articulate Mammal tackles the basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics. Jean Aitchison investigates these issues with regard to animal communication, child language and the language of adults, and includes in the text full references and helpful suggestions for further reading
The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar : The Effect of Particular Languages (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics)
This volume investigates the linguistic development of children with
regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. The selection of
papers gives empirical evidence from a wide variety of languages
including Hebrew, German, Croatian, Japanese, English, Spanish, Dutch,
Indonesian, Estonian, Russian and French. Findings are interpreted with
a focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, without
subscribing to either a UG-based or usage-based approach. Currently
debated topics, such as the role of frequency, as well as traditional
ones such as bootstrapping are integrated into the presentation of
language-specific, learner-specific and more general properties of the
acquisition process. The papers are united by their focus on
discovering what determines rule-governed behavior in language learners
who are coming to terms with the grammar of verbs.
