The Routledge International Handbook of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Processes

by Jackie Guendouzi (Editor), Filip Loncke (Editor), Mandy J. Williams (Editor)

Overview

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the theories of cognition and language processing relevant to the field of communication disorders. Thoroughly updated in its second edition, the book explores a range of topics and issues that illustrate the relevance of a dynamic interaction between both theoretical and applied clinical work.

Beginning with the origins of language evolution, the authors explore a range of both developmental and acquired communication disorders, reflecting the variety and complexity of psycholinguistics and its role in extending our knowledge of communication disorders. The first section outlines some of the major theoretical approaches from psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience that have been influential in research focusing on clinical populations, while Section II features examples from researchers who have applied this body of knowledge to developmental disorders of communication. Section III features examples focusing on acquired language disorders, and finally, Section IV considers psycholinguistic approaches to gesture, sign language, and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC). The new edition features new chapters offering fresh perspectives, further reading recommendations and a new epilogue from Jackie Guendouzi.

This valuable text serves as a single interdisciplinary resource for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in cognitive neurosciences, psychology, communication sciences and disorders, as well as researchers new to the field of communication disorders or to psycholinguistic theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032068640
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/26/2025
Series:	Routledge International Handbooks
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	596
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jackie Guendouzi, Ph.D., is a Professor and department head of Health and Human Sciences at Southeastern Louisiana University, United States.

Filip Loncke, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, United States.

Mandy J. Williams, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Dakota, United States.

Table of Contents

Psycholinguistics: Some Basic Considerations  SECTION I: Language Processing  1. The Development of Linguistic Systems: Insights From Evolution  2. Emergentism and Language Disorders   3. Healthy Aging and Communication: The Complexities of, Um, Fluent Speech Production  4. Working Memory and Attention in Language Use  5. Neurobiological Bases of the Semantic Processing of Words  6. From Phonemes to Discourse: Event-Related Brain Potentials (Erps) and Paradigms For Investigating Normal and Abnormal Language Processing  7. Early Word Learning: Reflections on Behavior, Connectionist Models, and Brain Mechanisms Indexed by ERP Components  8. Connectionist Models of Aphasia Revisited  9. Modeling the Attentional Control of Vocal Utterances: From Wernicke to WEAVER++  10. Theories of Semantic Processing  11. Language Comprehension: A Neurocognitive Perspective  12. Familiar Language: Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations in Mind and Brain  13. Relevance Theory and Language Interpretation  14. How Similarity Influences Word Recognition: The Effect of Neighbors  15. Two Theories of Speech Production and Perception  16. Psycholinguistic Validity and Phonological Representation  17. From Phonology to Articulation: A Neurophonetic View  SECTION II: Developmental Disorders  18. Temporal Processing in Children With Language Disorders  19. Language Processing in Children With Language Impairment  20. Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment: A Window Onto Domain Specificity  21. The Developing Mental Lexicon of Children With Specific Language Impairment  22. Screening and interventions for developmental fluency disorders  23. An Approach to Differentiating Bilingualism and Language Impairment  24. Constraints-based nonlinear phonology: Clinical applications for English, Kuwaiti Arabic, and Mandarin  25. Bilingual Children with SLI: Theories, Research and Future Directions  SECTION III: Acquired Disorders  26. Apraxia of Speech: From Psycholinguistic Theory to the Conceptualization and Management of an Impairment  27. The Role of Memory and Attention in Aphasic Language Performance  28. Remediation of Theory of Mind Impairments in Adults with Acquired Brain Injury  29. Breakdown of Semantics in Aphasia and Dementia: A Role for Attention?  30. Neurolinguistic and Neurocognitive Considerations of Language Organization and Processing in Multilingual Individuals  SECTION IV: Language and Other Modalities  31. Gestures and Growth Points in Language Disorders  32. Neural Organization of Language: Clues From Sign Language Aphasia  33. Sign Language and Sign Language Research  34. Psycholinguistics and Augmentative and Alternative Communication  35. Epilogue: Applying Psycholinguistic Theories to Conversation Data in the Context of Dementia