Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of
Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words …

Research on the Mental Lexicon has occupied a central role in the cognitive sciences for
over three decades. This reflects a consensus that the investigation of words in the mind …

How do we find the right word for the job? Where does that word come from? Why do we
spell it like that? And how do we know what it means? Words are all around us-we use them …

The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind
by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. However …

This textbook explores the ways in which language informs the structure and function of the
human mind, offering a point of entry into the fascinating territory of cognitive science …

The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining
characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process. The young …

In this accessible introduction, Mike Sharwood Smith provides a working model or'map'of the
mind, with language as its centrepiece. Drawing on cutting-edge research across linguistics …

This new book provides a broad, introductory survey to psycholinguistics that will remain
relevant to students whether or not they continue on in the field. Language in Mind …

This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John
Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the …

Cognitive Linguistics is the most rapidly expanding school in modern Linguistics. It aims to
create a scientific approach to the study of language, incorporating the tools of philosophy …