This fully revised text provides an understandable, clear overview of the psychology of language. Using an information-processing approach, Carroll brings the current developments and controversies in psycholinguistics to students in an engaging style and sets them in historical context. Functional in its approach, it fills the need for an up-to-date and clearly written treatment of the field. It gives students a balanced look at the subject. He includes an evenhanded and consistent discussion f

PART 1 General Issues
1 Introduction:Themes of Psycholinguistics
2 Linguistic Principles
3 Psychological Mechanisms
PART 2 Language Comprehension
4 Perception of Language
5 The Internal Lexicon
6 Sentence Comprechension and Memory
7 Discourse Comprechension and Memory
PART 3 Language Production and Conversational Interaction
8 Production of Speech and Language
9 Conversational Interaction
PART 4 Language Acpuisition
10 Early Language Acquisition
11 Latcr Language Acquisition
12 Processes of Language Acquisition
PART 5 Language in Perspective
13 Biological Foundations of Language
14 Language,Culture,and Cognition