Garnham 1985

Garnham, Alan. 1985.Psycholinguistics: Central topics. London: Methuen. 269 pages. 0416366201. Location: Dallas SIL Library 401.9 G235ps. Interest level: specialist.

Is an important, new teaching text. Focuses on current theories about the central cognitive aspects of language understanding. Attempts to reflect the emergence of cognitive science, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and other cognitive processes. Describes psychological studies and includes ideas from

• linguistics
• artificial intelligence
• the philosophy of language, and
• formal logic.

"Some introductory remarks on the study of language understanding precede a discussion of word recognition and the computation of the syntactic structure of sentences." Central part is concerned with questions about meaning. Includes chapters on

• the concept of meaning
• the mental representation of word meanings, and
• text comprehension.

Final two chapters address questions of how parts of the language processing system operate together, and how language production is related to comprehension.

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