Chapter 1 Language and its Structure 1.1 Language 1.1 1 What is language? 1.1.1.1 Arbitrariness 1.1.1.2 Duality 1.1.1.3 Productivity 1.1.1.4 Displacement 1.1.2 Is language species specific? 1.2 Scientific Study ofLanguage 1.2.1 Competence andPerformance 1.2.2 Levels ofLanguage Analysis 1.2.2.1 Phonologyl—The Sysyem of Sounds 1.2.2.2 Semantics—The System ofMeaning 1.2.2.3 Syntax—The Structure ofLanguage 1.2.2.4 Pragmatics—The Actual Use of Language Summary References Chapter 2 Are Introduction to Psycholinguistics 2.1 The Scope of Psycholinguistics 2.2 Theoreticl Foundations 2.2.1 Structuralism 2.2.2 LinguisticTransformationalism 2.2 3 Behaviorism 2.2.4 TheCognitiveApproach 2.3 The History ofPsycholinguistics 2.3.1 The Origin ofPsycholinguistics 2.3.2 The Development of Psycholinguistics 2.3.2.1 FormativePeriod 2.3.2.2 LinguisticPeriod 2.3.2.3 PsycholinguisticsToday Summary References Chapter 3.Language Comprehension 3.1 ThePerception ofSpeech Sounds 3.1.1 The Perception of Vowels 3.1.2 The Perception of ConsonanL 3.1.3 The Nature of Speech perception 3.2 Lexical Access 3.2 1 TheBasicperceptual Unit. 3.2.2 Factors AffectingLexical Access 3.2.2.1 WordFrequency andRecency 3.2.2.2 ImageabilityandConcreteness andAbstracmess 3.2.2.3 Context 3.3 Syntactic Processing. 3.3.1 ParsingStrategies 3.3.2 Ambiguity 3.3.2.1 LexicalAmbiguity 3.3.2.2 SyntacticAmbiguity 3.3.3 ModelsofSentenceParsing 3.3.3.1 The AutonomousModel 3.3.3.2 The Interactive Model 3.4 Understanding of Non-literal Meaning 3.4.1 Sarcasrns,Metaphors,Indirect Speech Acts 3.4.2 ThreeStageProcessing Summary References Chapter4 Meaning and Memory Chapter5 A psychological Account of Reading Chapter6 Speech Production Chapter7 Language Acquisition Ⅰ Chapter8 Language Acquisition Ⅱ Chapter9 Language and Thought Chapter10 Language and the Brain Glossary