Chapter 1 Language and its Structure
1.1 Language
1.1 1 What is language?
1.1.1.1 Arbitrariness
1.1.1.2 Duality
1.1.1.3 Productivity
1.1.1.4 Displacement
1.1.2 Is language species specific?
1.2 Scientific Study ofLanguage
1.2.1 Competence andPerformance
1.2.2 Levels ofLanguage Analysis
1.2.2.1 Phonologyl—The Sysyem of Sounds
1.2.2.2 Semantics—The System ofMeaning
1.2.2.3 Syntax—The Structure ofLanguage
1.2.2.4 Pragmatics—The Actual Use of Language
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Chapter 2 Are Introduction to Psycholinguistics
2.1 The Scope of Psycholinguistics
2.2 Theoreticl Foundations
2.2.1 Structuralism
2.2.2 LinguisticTransformationalism
2.2 3 Behaviorism
2.2.4 TheCognitiveApproach
2.3 The History ofPsycholinguistics
2.3.1 The Origin ofPsycholinguistics
2.3.2 The Development of Psycholinguistics
2.3.2.1 FormativePeriod
2.3.2.2 LinguisticPeriod
2.3.2.3 PsycholinguisticsToday
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Chapter 3.Language Comprehension
3.1 ThePerception ofSpeech Sounds
3.1.1 The Perception of Vowels
3.1.2 The Perception of ConsonanL
3.1.3 The Nature of Speech perception
3.2 Lexical Access
3.2 1 TheBasicperceptual Unit.
3.2.2 Factors AffectingLexical Access
3.2.2.1 WordFrequency andRecency
3.2.2.2 ImageabilityandConcreteness andAbstracmess
3.2.2.3 Context
3.3 Syntactic Processing.
3.3.1 ParsingStrategies
3.3.2 Ambiguity
3.3.2.1 LexicalAmbiguity
3.3.2.2 SyntacticAmbiguity
3.3.3 ModelsofSentenceParsing
3.3.3.1 The AutonomousModel
3.3.3.2 The Interactive Model
3.4 Understanding of Non-literal Meaning
3.4.1 Sarcasrns,Metaphors,Indirect Speech Acts
3.4.2 ThreeStageProcessing
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Chapter4 Meaning and Memory
Chapter5 A psychological Account of Reading
Chapter6 Speech Production
Chapter7 Language Acquisition Ⅰ
Chapter8 Language Acquisition Ⅱ
Chapter9 Language and Thought
Chapter10 Language and the Brain
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