Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances


Abstract:

Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field, where theorising is still largely guided by the often implicit assumption of universality. This paper introduces a special issue of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience devoted to the topic of cross-linguistic and field-based approaches to the study of psycholinguistics. The papers in this issue draw on data from a variety of genetically and areally divergent languages, to address questions in the production and comprehension of phonology, morphology, words, and sentences. To contextualise these studies, we provide an overview of the field of cross-linguistic psycholinguistics, from its early beginnings to the present day, highlighting instances where cross-linguistic data have significantly contributed to psycholinguistic theorising.

Año de publicación:

2015

Keywords:

  • field-based psycholinguistics
  • Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics
  • language production
  • language comprehension
  • linguistic typology

Fuente:

scopusscopus

Tipo de documento:

Other

Estado:

Acceso restringido

Áreas de conocimiento:

  • Adquisición del lenguaje

Áreas temáticas de Dewey:

  • Filosofía y teoría