Acoustic Phonetics
in Linguistics
Published online March 2013.
Article. Subjects: linguistics; anthropological linguistics; languages by region; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics. 7677 words.
Acoustic phonetics is the study of the acoustic characteristics of speech, including an analysis and description of speech in terms of its physical properties, such as frequency,...
Acquisition of Language
in Linguistics
Published online October 2011.
Article. Subjects: linguistics; anthropological linguistics; languages by region; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics. 11541 words.
First language acquisition—the study of how children acquire their first language(s)––is the branch of psycholinguistics that deals with the process of acquisition. This field is...
Adaptation of Perceptual and Semantic Features
in Functional Features in Language and Space
December 2004; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: psycholinguistics. 6623 words.
This chapter examines the role of features in theories of concepts, perception, and language. Features are defined as psychological representations of properties of the world that can be processed...
Afroasiatic Languages
in Linguistics
Published online October 2011.
Article. Subjects: linguistics; anthropological linguistics; languages by region; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics. 12099 words.
Afroasiatic languages are found across North Africa and throughout much of East Africa and the Middle East. Afroasiatic is generally considered to be composed of the language families...
Agent, Person, Subject, Self
December 2012; published online January 2013.
Book. Subjects: psycholinguistics. 256 pages.
This book offers both a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world. It provides a reconstructive rather than deconstructive theory of the individual, one which both...
Algonquian Linguistics
in Linguistics
Published online October 2011.
Article. Subjects: linguistics; anthropological linguistics; languages by region; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics. 6514 words.
The traditional and post-European contact range of the Algonquian languages covers an enormous area: roughly centered along most of the Canadian-US border, extending down the Atlantic...
Analogy in Grammar
July 2009; published online September 2009.
Book. Subjects: psycholinguistics. 296 pages.
Analogy is a central component of language structure, language processing, and language change. This book addresses central questions about the form and acquisition of analogy in grammar. What...
Anaphora
in Linguistics
Published online October 2011.
Article. Subjects: linguistics; anthropological linguistics; languages by region; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics. 8498 words.
Anaphora can be generally defined as “subsequent reference to an entity already introduced in discourse” (Safir 2004a; see Representing Anaphoric Dependencies). The study of anaphora...
Antecedents and Consequents
in Spell‐Out and the Minimalist Program
December 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: psycholinguistics. 13620 words.
This chapter situates the present system within the tradition it comes from, in the process examining foundational concerns about the overall architecture and how this has influenced other lines of...
Aphasia
in Linguistics
Published online October 2011.
Article. Subjects: linguistics; anthropological linguistics; languages by region; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics. 9911 words.
Aphasia is a language disorder acquired subsequent to brain damage that affects production and understanding of spoken and written language in varying degrees and patterns associated...