Neurolinguistics

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What biological factors make human communication possible? How do we process and understand language? How does brain damage affect these mechanisms, and what can this tell us about how language is organized in the brain?The field of neurolinguistics seeks to answerthese questions, which are crucial to linguistics, psychology and speech pathology alike. Drawing on examples from everyday language, this textbook introduces the central topics !ft neurolinguistics: speech recognition, word and sentence structure, meaning, and disclosure - in both 'normal' speakers and those with language disorders. It moves on to provide a balanced discussion of key areas of debate such as modularity and the 'language areas' of the brain, 'connectionist' versus 'symbolic' modelling of language processing, and the nature of linguistic and mental representations. Making accessible over half a century of scientific and linguistic research, and containing extensive study questions, it will be... Tovább

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What biological factors make human communication possible? How do we process and understand language? How does brain damage affect these mechanisms, and what can this tell us about how language is organized in the brain?The field of neurolinguistics seeks to answerthese questions, which are crucial to linguistics, psychology and speech pathology alike. Drawing on examples from everyday language, this textbook introduces the central topics !ft neurolinguistics: speech recognition, word and sentence structure, meaning, and disclosure - in both 'normal' speakers and those with language disorders. It moves on to provide a balanced discussion of key areas of debate such as modularity and the 'language areas' of the brain, 'connectionist' versus 'symbolic' modelling of language processing, and the nature of linguistic and mental representations. Making accessible over half a century of scientific and linguistic research, and containing extensive study questions, it will be welcomed by all those interested in the relationship between language and the brain.
• Synthesizes primary scientific literature spanning half a century, making it accessible to a student audience
• Provides a balanced discussion of the major conflicting arguments and theories about language and the brain
• Covers the most recent research methods and findings, such as brain imagi ng tech n iq ues
• Contains overthirty study questions
John C. L. Ingram is Senior Lecturer on the Linguistics Program at the University of Queensland. He has published widely on speech and languagedisorders, sound change in second language acquisition, phonetic variation in Australian English, connected speech processes, acoustic phonetics, foreign accent phenomena and forensic speaker identification. Vissza