Language in Mind
by Julie Sedivy · Julie Sedivy
Accessible first psycholinguistics textbook, walking through how people acquire, produce, and comprehend language, with the experiments behind each claim. Readers finish able to read primary research and judge how well an experiment supports its conclusion.
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