本书是心理语言学领域的经典教材，自第一版1986年面世以来，至今已出至第五版。书中呈现了这一领域的基本理论、发展方向和研究方法，及时反映了学科的最新研究成果和重要发现，介绍和讨论了一些热门课题，如心理词汇、语篇理解和会话交往，更新了几个研究较多的领域，如工作记忆。同时列举了丰富的例证和大量的实验，便于读者加深理解、拓宽研究思路。

PREFACE

PART Ⅰ  General Issues

1  Introduction: Themes of Psycholinguistics

2  Linguistic Principles

3 Psychological Mechanisms

PART Ⅱ  Language Comprehension

4 Perception of Language

5 The Internal Lexicon

6 Sentence Comprehension and Memory

7 Discourse Comprehension and Memory

PART Ⅲ Language Production and Conversational Interaction

8 Production of Speech and Language

9 Conversational Interaction

PART Ⅳ Language Acquisition

10 Early Language Acquisition

11 Latef Language Acquisition

12 Processes of Language Acquisition

PART Ⅴ Language in Perspective

13 Biological Foundations of Language

14 Language, Culture, and Cognition

GLOSSARY

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