36.1814, Books: Psycholinguistics: Ferreira (2025)

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Subject: 36.1814, Books: Psycholinguistics: Ferreira (2025)

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Date: 10-Jun-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Psycholinguistics: Ferreira (2025)


Title: Psycholinguistics
Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction
Series Title: Very Short Introductions
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/psycholinguistics-9780192886774?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author(s): Fernanda Ferreira

Paperback: 9780192886774
Audiobook

Abstract:

This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and
engaging description of how people use language. Talking and
understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward
skills, but research in psycholinguistics has shown that complex
computations take place behind the scenes when you communicate with
others. Recent debates concerning how AI tools such as ChatGPT work
highlight some of these core questions about the language faculty and
how it is that humans comprehend, produce, and learn language.
The book begins with an overview of the fields of linguistics and
psychology and how they have cooperated from the earliest days of
psycholinguistics. It then considers how words and sentences are
interpreted, how they are generated, and how human conversation is
coordinated. The book also reviews research on reading, sign language
processing, and bilingualism. The closing chapter summarizes where the
field is heading, with a brief discussion of Large Language Models,
the role of Information Theory, the growing emphasis on the
neurobiology of language, and the increasing diversity of research in
psycholinguistics, both with respect to the languages studied and the
backgrounds and histories of language researchers. Issues that are
considered include: (1) How successfully do people adapt what they say
to the needs of their audience when they design their phrases and
sentences? (2) How do people read languages such as Chinese, which do
not use an alphabetic writing system? (3) Do the size and efficiency
of a person's memory affect how effectively people use language? (4)
Is bilingualism cognitively advantageous, and if so, what are the
mechanisms that lead to this so-called bilingual advantage? And (5) Do
users of sign language gesture when they communicate? These questions
and more are answered using insights from the latest research based on
methods from the cognitive and neurosciences.

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics




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