Language Disorders Arena

Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages

• Edited by Karen Emmorey.

Published February 2003

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and…
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The New Psychology of Language

Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II

• Edited by Michael Tomasello.

Published October 2002

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and…
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Language, Cognition, and the Brain

Insights From Sign Language Research

• By Karen Emmorey.

Published October 2001

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human language and language processing, the relation between cognition and language, and the neural organization of language.…
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Assessment of Language Disorders in Children

• By Rebecca J. McCauley.

Published October 2000

This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders. Rebecca McCauley describes specific commonly used tools, as well as general…
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The New Psychology of Language

Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume I

• Edited by Michael Tomasello.

Published June 1998

This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may define the next era in the history of psychology: It promises to give psychologists a new appreciation of what this variety of linguistics can offer their study of…
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