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| Note: Each chapter includes Key Terms, Review Questions, and On Further Reflection | |
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| Language and Its Functions | |
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| The Nature of Language Language Origins, Human Origins Comparing Human and Nonhuman Communication A Look Ahead: The Study of Psycholinguistics Levels of Analysis and the Plan Behind This Book Conclusions: Is Language a Uniquely Human Ability? | |
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| What Language Users Must Know Overview: Two Linguistic Problems Phonology and Productivity | |
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| Morphology and Productivity | |
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| Syntax and Productivity | |
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| The Problem of Meaning Conclusions: What a Language User Needs to Know | |
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| Language in Relation to Other Cognitive Processes | |
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| A Historical View of Language and Cognition Memory, Language, and Reasoning: Beyond the Multistore Model | |
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| How Should the Study of the Brain Influence the Study of the Mind? | |
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| Conclusions: The Independence of Language | |
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| Theories of the Language-Thought Relationship | |
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| The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Cultural Variations in Thought and Language Within-Language Studies of Linguistic Determinism | |
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| Conclusions: The Interdependence of Thought and Language | |
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| Reprise: What Must the Psychology of Language Explain? | |
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| Models of Language Processing | |
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| The Recognition of Spoken Words | |
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| The Nature of the Speech | |
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| Signal From the Speech Signal to Word Recognition | |
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| Models of Spoken Word Recognition | |
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| Conclusions: How Special Is Speech? | |
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| Visual Word Recognition | |
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| The Nature of the Stimulus | |
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| What Components of Written Words Are Used to Recognize Them? | |
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| Variables That Influence Visual Word Recognition | |
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| Models of Visual Word Recognition | |
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| Dyslexia and Word Recognition | |
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| Conclusions: Toward a Consensus on Word Recognition | |
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| Sentence Processing | |
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| How Can We Study Sentence Processing? | |
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| Ambiguity and the Question of Modularity | |
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| Beyond the Modularity Debate: New Evidence | |
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| Beyond Literal Meaning | |
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| Conclusions: The Interrelations Among Language Processes | |
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| Understanding and Remembering | |
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| Discourse Forming Connections in Discourse: Local and Global Coherence | |
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| Memory for Discourse: The Products of Comprehension Individual Differences in Discourse Comprehension | |
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| Conclusions: The Limits of the "Language Is Special" View | |
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| Language Production and Conversation | |
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| Speech Production and Speech Errors | |
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| Speech Production in Its Social Context: Conversation The Production of Written Language | |
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| Conclusions: Language Production and Modular Organization | |
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| Reprise: What Are the Common Elements | |
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| Among Different Models of Language Processing? | |
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| Language and the Brain | |
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| Language Acquisition: Biological Foundations | |
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| How Can We Study Language Acquisition? | |
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| Milestones of Language Acquisition | |
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| A Test Case for Innate Foundations: Overregularization Conclusions: What's in the Foundation? | |
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| Language Acquisition in Special Circumstances | |
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| The Effects of Atypical Environments on Acquisition | |
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| The Dissociation of Language and Cognition in Acquisition | |
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| Conclusions: The Nativist Hypothesis and Language | |
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| Language and the Localization of Function | |
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| Aphasia Studies in Historical Perspective: The Classic Language Circuit | |
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| Modern Methods Used to Study Localization of Function | |
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| The Organization of Language Processes in the Brain | |
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| Conclusions: What's Become of the Classic Language Circuit? | |
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| Reprise: What Has the Psychology of Language Explained? | |