This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the theories of cognition and language processing relevant to the field of communication disorders. Thoroughly updated in its second edition, the book explores a range of topics and issues that illustrate the relevance of a dynamic interaction between both theoretical and applied clinical work.
Beginning with the origins of language evolution, the authors explore a range of both developmental and acquired communication disorders, reflecting the variety and complexity of psycholinguistics and its role in extending our knowledge of communication disorders. The first section outlines some of the major theoretical approaches from psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience that have been influential in research focusing on clinical populations, while Section II features examples from researchers who have applied this body of knowledge to developmental disorders of communication. Section III features examples focusing on acquired language disorders, and finally, Section IV considers psycholinguistic approaches to gesture, sign language, and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC). The new edition features new chapters offering fresh perspectives, further reading recommendations and a new epilogue from Jackie Guendouzi.
This valuable text serves as a single interdisciplinary resource for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in cognitive neurosciences, psychology, communication sciences and disorders, as well as researchers new to the field of communication disorders or to psycholinguistic theory.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the theories of cognition and language processing relevant to the field of communication disorders. Thoroughly updated in its second edition, it explores a range of topics and issues that illustrate the relevance of a dynamic interaction between both theoretical and applied clinical work.
Psycholinguistics: Some Basic Considerations SECTION I: Language
Processing
1. The Development of Linguistic Systems: Insights From Evolution
2. Emergentism and Language Disorders
3. Healthy Aging and Communication: The
Complexities of, Um, Fluent Speech Production
4. Working Memory and Attention
in Language Use
5. Neurobiological Bases of the Semantic Processing of Words
6. From Phonemes to Discourse: Event-Related Brain Potentials (Erps) and
Paradigms For Investigating Normal and Abnormal Language Processing
7. Early
Word Learning: Reflections on Behavior, Connectionist Models, and Brain
Mechanisms Indexed by ERP Components
8. Connectionist Models of Aphasia
Revisited
9. Modeling the Attentional Control of Vocal Utterances: From
Wernicke to WEAVER++
10. Theories of Semantic Processing
11. Language
Comprehension: A Neurocognitive Perspective
12. Familiar Language: Formulaic
Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations in Mind and Brain
13.
Relevance Theory and Language Interpretation
14. How Similarity Influences
Word Recognition: The Effect of Neighbors
15. Two Theories of Speech
Production and Perception
16. Psycholinguistic Validity and Phonological
Representation
17. From Phonology to Articulation: A Neurophonetic View
SECTION II: Developmental Disorders
18. Temporal Processing in Children With
Language Disorders
19. Language Processing in Children With Language
Impairment
20. Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment: A Window Onto Domain
Specificity
21. The Developing Mental Lexicon of Children With Specific
Language Impairment
22. Screening and interventions for developmental fluency
disorders
23. An Approach to Differentiating Bilingualism and Language
Impairment
24. Constraints-based nonlinear phonology: Clinical applications
for English, Kuwaiti Arabic, and Mandarin
25. Bilingual Children with SLI:
Theories, Research and Future Directions SECTION III: Acquired Disorders
26.
Apraxia of Speech: From Psycholinguistic Theory to the Conceptualization and
Management of an Impairment
27. The Role of Memory and Attention in Aphasic
Language Performance
28. Remediation of Theory of Mind Impairments in Adults
with Acquired Brain Injury
29. Breakdown of Semantics in Aphasia and
Dementia: A Role for Attention?
30. Neurolinguistic and Neurocognitive
Considerations of Language Organization and Processing in Multilingual
Individuals SECTION IV: Language and Other Modalities
31. Gestures and Growth
Points in Language Disorders
32. Neural Organization of Language: Clues From
Sign Language Aphasia
33. Sign Language and Sign Language Research
34.
Psycholinguistics and Augmentative and Alternative Communication
35.
Epilogue: Applying Psycholinguistic Theories to Conversation Data in the
Context of Dementia
Jackie Guendouzi, Ph.D., is a Professor and department head of Health and Human Sciences at Southeastern Louisiana University, United States.
Filip Loncke, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Virginias School of Education and Human Development, United States.
Mandy J. Williams, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Dakota, United States.
