ABSTRACT
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The purpose of this chapter is to introduce you to selected key topics in the psychology of language. It begins with a discussion of the design characteristics of language, which are then used to ask whether animals, particularly primates, can learn human language. The two sections after that deal with key ideas in sentence comprehension and sentence production. The chapter then moves on to a discussion of spoken word recognition before concluding with an examination of the processes involved in reading, the dual-route model and written word recognition.
