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“willem levelt”

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  • A History of Psycholinguistics

    The Pre-Chomskyan Era

    by Willem Levelt ...
    How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them?These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Meme Machine

    by Susan Blackmore ...
    Series series Popular Science
    Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an investigation of whether this link between genes and ... Read more

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  • Meditation for Busy People

    Sixty Seconds to Serenity

    by Dawn Groves ...
    This concise, jargon-free guide introduces a simple method for fitting meditation into a complex and overbusy lifestyle. The Meditation for Busy People (MBP) method is practical, portable, and suitable for any time frame from seconds to hours. Its also flexible enough to perform while sitting, standing, or walking.In a supportive, friendly style, the author shows us how regular or even sporadic ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • First and Second Language Acquisition

    Parallels and Differences

    by Jürgen M. Meisel ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling without, it seems, ever being able to reach the same level of proficiency as five year olds in their first language. This useful textbook serves as a guide to different types of language acquisition: monolingual ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

    Edited by Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, Ian Cross ...
    The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are uniquely human traits, so it is not surprising that this interest spans practically all branches of cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Underlying the study of language and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

    Papua New Guinea Studies

    by Geoffrey B. Saxe ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system that makes use of twenty-seven parts of the body; there is no evidence that the group used arithmetic ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • How Language Began

    Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

    by David McNeill ...
    Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
    Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Working Memory and Language

    by Susan E. Gathercole, Alan D. Baddeley ...
    Series series Essays in Cognitive Psychology
    This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled reading, and comprehension. The authors draw upon experimental, neuropsychological and developmental evidence in a wide-ranging evaluation of the contribution of two components of working memory to each aspect of language. The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • on Becoming A Language Educator

    Personal Essays on Professional Development

    Edited by Christine Pears Casanave, Sandra R. Schecter ...
    These personal essays by first and second language researchers and practitioners reflect on issues, events, and people in their lives that helped them carve out their career paths or clarify an important dimension of their missions as educators. Their narratives depict the ways in which professionals from diverse backgrounds and work settings have grappled with issues in language education that ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

    by Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria F. Barcelos, Mari Aro, Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty ...
    This book explores the phenomena of believing (or giving personal meanings), acting, and identifying (or identity construction), and the interconnectedness of these phenomena in the learning and teaching of English and other foreign languages. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind

    The Madness of Culture

    by L. Berger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this book offers a provocative, original analysis of the global threats to our survival, and proposes a remedy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reading as a Perceptual Process

    Edited by A. Kennedy, D. Heller, J. Pynte, Ralph Radach ...
    This book is divided into five sections dealing with various fundamental issues in current research: attention, information processing and eye movement control; the role of phonology in reading; syntax and discourse processing and computational models and simulations. Control and measurement of eye movements form a prominent theme in the book. A full understanding of the where and when of eye ... Read more

    $224.99 USD