Introduction to Psycholinguistics

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- PREFACE -- First part. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS -- CHAPTER I. The beginnings of psycholinguistics and its place in the present-day system of sciences -- CHAPTER II. The object of psycholinguistics and some of its problems -- CHAPTER III. Emission, reception and message -- CHAPTER IV. Psycholinguistic methodology (Collecting and interpretation of facts) The dynamic-contextual method -- Second part. APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (IN RESEARCH WORK AND IN PRACTICE) -- A. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND RESEARCH WORK IN CONNECTED FIELDS -- CHAPTER I. A few applications of the methodology of psycholinguistics (with special reference to the dynamic-contextual method) -- CHAPTER II. Stylistics and psycholinguistics -- CHAPTER III. Psycholinguistics and the application of the dynamic-contextual method in dialectology -- CHAPTER IV. Work and communication. A few problems of psycholinguistics and applied linguistics -- CHAPTER V. Psycholinguistics and technical language in automation -- . THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS -- CHAPTER I. Acquisition of language by the child. The first stages -- CHAPTER II. Acquisition of language during preschool ge. The style of child speech. The dialogue -- CHAPTER III. The learning and use of oblique cases by children -- CHAPTER IV. The relationship between thought and langage. Developmental dynamics of these relationships in children -- CHAPTER V. Some psycholinguistic problems of language development (mother tongue) in school and of foreign-language learning -- Third part. THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD IN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (A FEW EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR RESULTS) -- CHAPTER I. The experimental method in linguistics and psycholinguistics -- CHAPTER II. Experimental reversed speaking -- CHAPTER III. Experiments on lexical systems -- CHAPTER IV. Experiments on the rôle of the context -- CHAPTER V. The experiment of prediction 1. Statistics of phonemes 2. Resolution of homonymy in a text -- BY WAY OF CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDIX. Components of communication, code levels, interdisciplinary approach - and the object of psycholinguistics -- Notes