PART Ⅰ Elementsofpsycholinguistics

1 Characteristics of the language signal

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The speech signal

1.3 Writing systems

1.4 Conclusions

2 The biological foundations of language

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The auditory system

2.3 The visual system

2.4 The organisation of language in the brain

2.5 The articulatory and manual systems

2.6 Conclusions

3 Sources of evidence for the language system

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Non-fluencies

3.3 Grammaticalcharacterisation

3.4 Errors

3.5 Conclusions

PART Ⅱ Processes and models

Processing the language signal

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Perceiving the speech signal

4.3 Perceiving the graphic signal

4.4 Articulatory processes

4.5 Written language production

4.6 Conclusions

5 Accessing the mentallexicon

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Interpreting the findings

5.3 A search model oflexical access

5.4 Word-detector systems:the logogen model

5.5 Word-detector systems:the cohort model

5.6 Further issues

5.7 Conclusions

6 Understanding utterances

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Serial models

6.3 Parallel models

6.4 Interpretative processes

7 Producing utterances

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The internal structure of the message level

7.3 Lexical access:the nature of stored word-meanings

7.4 The internal structure of the sentence level

7.5 Serial versus parallel interpretations

7.6 Conclusions

8 Impairment of processing

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The main aphasic syndromes

8.3 The validation of aphasic syndromes

8.4 The interpretation of aphasic syndromes

8.5 Conclusion

References

Index of names

Subject index