About Cambridge Elements in Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field of research and teaching. It is of primary relevance within linguistics and psychology and is influenced by the research methodologies and teaching practices in both fields. Courses and research in psycholinguistics are also found in multidisciplinary cognitive science units throughout the world.
Basic research in psycholinguistics addresses fundamental questions such as the following:
- What kinds of mental representations do language users have for the elements of their language?
- How do speakers and writers access and assemble linguistic elements during production?
- How do listeners and readers retrieve linguistic information from the input during comprehension?
- How do speakers and listeners manage their interaction with one another?
- How does language processing relate to other areas of cognition and to the social contexts of language use?
Addressing these issues through theoretical and empirical studies, ranging across a number of linguistic levels (e.g., speech sounds, words and other meaningful elements, phrases and sentences), the series presents high quality and up-to-date scholarly works in a compact, accessible format.
