Sharwood Smith, Michael, 1942-

Introducing language and cognition : a map of the mind / Mike Sharwood Smith. - xvii, 224 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction; Part I. Mechanisms of the Mind: 1. The basic design; 2. Perception; 3. Motion; 4. Meaning; 5. Affect; 6. Memory, processing and activation; 7. Consciousness and attention; 8. Developing knowledge and ability; Part II. Language(s) in the Mind: 9. Defining language; 10. The core system; 11. Language beyond the core; 12. Two ways of knowing a language; 13. Language and affect; 14. Language development in the monolingual; 15. Becoming multilingual.

9781316606704 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2016036246


Language acquisition--Psychological aspects.
Cognitive learning.
Brain--Physiology.
Psycholinguistics.

P118.2 / .S53 2016

401.9 SHA