Background
Garnham, Alan was born on September 15, 1954 in Harrogate, England. Son of Philip Henry and Mabel (Sulman) Garnham.
(In this important new teaching text, Alan Garnham focuses...)
In this important new teaching text, Alan Garnham focuses on current theories about the central cognitive aspects of language understanding, and attempts to reflect the emergence of cognitive science, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and other cognitive processes. As well as describing psychological studies, the text includes ideas from linguistics, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of language and formal logic. Some introductory remarks on the study of language understanding precede a discussion of word recognition and the computation of the syntactic structure of sentences. The central part of the book is concerned with questions about meaning, and includes chapters on the concept of meaning, the mental representation of word meanings, and text comprehension. The final two chapters address questions of the parts of the language processing system operate together and how language production is related to comprehension. Rather than attempting an exhaustive discussion of empirical research on his chosen topics, the author gives the reader a flavour of psycholinguistics arguments. In particular, "Psycholinguistics" attempts to indicate the problems and also the possibilities of relating experimental data to theories of language processing. "Psycholinguistics" will be primary reading on courses in psycholinguistics, language and thought, and cognitive psychology.
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( Originally published in 1985, this title was an importa...)
Originally published in 1985, this title was an important new teaching text at the time. Alan Garnham focuses on current theories about the central cognitive aspects of language understanding, and attempts to reflect the emergence of cognitive science, an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of language and other cognitive processes. As well as describing psychological studies, the text includes ideas from linguistics, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of language and formal logic. Some introductory remarks on the study of language understanding precede a discussion of word recognition and the computation of the syntactic structure of sentences. The central part of the book is concerned with questions about meaning, the mental representation of word meanings, and text comprehension. The final two chapters address questions of how the parts of the language processing system operate together, and how language production is related to comprehension. Rather than attempting an exhaustive discussion of empirical research on his chosen topics, the author gives the reader the flavour of linguistic arguments. In particular, Psycholinguistics attempts to indicate the problems and also the possibilities of relating experimental data to theories of language processing. Psycholinguistics will still be useful reading on courses in psycholinguistics, language and thought, and cognitive psychology.
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Garnham, Alan was born on September 15, 1954 in Harrogate, England. Son of Philip Henry and Mabel (Sulman) Garnham.
Bachelor with lst class honours, University of Oxford, l977; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, 1996; Doctor of Philosophy, Sussex U., Brighton, England, l98l; Master of Arts, 1996.
University lecturer, Reading (England) University, l983-85; university lecturer psychology, Sussex U., l98l, 85-94; research fellow, Sussex U., l98l-83; reader, Sussex U., 1994; head of department, Sussex U., since 1994. Visiting fellow Max-Planck Institute für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, l986, Catholic U. Brabant, Tilburg, The Netherlands, l987, U. Paris V, 1990. Member working party horizons and opportunities in social science Economics and Social Research Council United Kingdom, l986-87, Biotechnology and Biological Research Council, Animal Sciences and Psychology Committee, since 1995.
(In this important new teaching text, Alan Garnham focuses...)
( Originally published in 1985, this title was an importa...)
Member Experimental Psychology Society, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Society (associate).
Married Jane Oakhill, December 22, 1990. Children Robin Oakhill, Thomas Edward Oakhill.