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First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
Introduction; 1: Applied Psycholinguistics: Introduction, Foundations and Overview; Reading, Writing and Language Learning; 2: Theoretical Issues in the Study of Word Recognition: The Unit of Perception Controversy Reexamined; 3: Psycholinguistic Processes in Writing; 4: Second-Language Learning and Bilingualism in Children and Adults; Discourse Processes; 5: Prose Comprehension in Natural and Experimental Settings: The Theory and Its Practical Implications; Disorders of First-Language Development; 6: The Nature of Specific Language Impairment in Children; 7: The Language of the Mentally Retarded: Development, Processes, and Intervention; 8: Language in Infantile Autism; 9: The Language Development of Deaf Children and Youth; Adult Language Disorders; 10: A Psycholinguistic Assessment of Adult Aphasia; 11: Adult Schizophrenic Language
About the author
Sheldon Rosenberg Department of Psychology and Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Summary
First published in 1982. The chapters of this handbook contain critical integrative reviews of research and theory in the major areas of the field of applied psycholinguistics, the field in which applied problems of language and communicative functioning and development are approached from the standpoint of basic research and theory in psycholinguistics and related areas of cognitive psychology. The book was designed to meet the needs of researchers, practitioners and graduate students from such disciplines as education (including special education), language learning, linguistics, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, and speech and hearing for such reviews, although the state of research in an area and a desire to stress research and theory in substantive areas resulted in a decision not to include chapters on the measurement of linguistic maturity, language intervention, the language of the learning disabled child, language and environmental deprivation, language and mania, language and senile dementia, and the design of written and oral information and computer command language.
