Libros de Psicolingüística. Neurolingüística

Este libro ofrece una visión integral y actualizada sobre el trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje (TDL) en niños hispanohablantes. A lo largo de doce capítulos, reconocidos especialistas en el tema presentan una vision pormenorizada de las investigaciones mas recientes que se han realizado en los ultimos años.El contenido abarca aspectos vulnerables en el TDL, como la fonetica y la fonologia, la morfosintaxis, la comprension, el discurso narrativo y las habilidades pragmaticas. Ademas, analiza el desempeño escolar, las habilidades atencionales y ejecutivas y las dificultades socioemocionales que afectan a estos niños. El libro proporciona un marco solido para comprender como se manifiesta este trastorno en niños cuya lengua materna es el español, aunque hay descripciones muy detalladas sobre las dificultades de los niños que hablan otras lenguas. El manual tambien incluye un capitulo sobre el TDL en niños bilingues, un tema de gran pertinencia en el contexto actual de migracion y educacion multicultural. La obra presenta una revision sobre la influencia del entorno en el estudio del TDL y, ademas, proporciona informacion actualizada sobre evaluacion e intervencion en niños con esta condicion.El manual constituye una referencia indispensable para investigadores, clinicos, docentes y estudiantes interesados en el desarrollo del lenguaje infantil y uno de sus principales trastornos. Su enfoque en la poblacion hispanohablante llena un vacio en la literatura actual y aporta conocimientos fundamentales para la deteccion temprana y un diagnostico mas preciso.

Wonderful Endlessly interesting and beautifully written DAILY TELEGRAPH Steady headed and fun SUNDAY TIMES Read this book and I promise you ll never listen to animals in the same way again JESSICA PIERCE author of Who s a Good Dog Why Animals Talk is a scientific journey through the untamed world of animal communication From the majestic howls of wolves and the enchanting chatter of parrots to the melodic clicks of dolphins and the spirited grunts of chimpanzees these diverse and seemingly bizarre expressions are far from mere noise In fact they hold secrets that we are just beginning to decipher For example wolves just like humans possess unique accents that distinguish their howls gibbons have different alarm calls for leopards and snakes and sing romantic duets with their partners and dolphins not only give themselves names but respond excitedly to recordings of the whistles of long lost companions Chapter by chapter and animal by animal Kershenbaum draws on his extensive research and observations of animals in the wild to explain the science behind why animals are communicating Also revealing profound insights into our own language and why it is different In doing so Why Animals Talks tells the comprehensive story of communication a

LANGUAGE, CONSCIOUSNESS, CULTURE: ESSAYS ON MENTAL STRUCTURE

"El sueño de Martina" es un cuento que plantea la felicidad de todos los niños del mundo, sin distinción de razas o credos. Nunca se debe renunciar a un sueño si éste es noble y merece convertirse en realidad, por muy utopico e inalcanzable que nos parezca. Porque si crees en el, lo deseas de verdad y pones de tu parte todo lo que dependa de ti, muchas veces el sueño se convierte en realidad.En "El sueño de Martina" tambien se evidencia el papel que los abuelos desempeñan en la educacion de sus nietos. No se trata de una educacion cientifica y sistematicamente programada, responde mas bien a lecciones ocasionales impartidas con una pedagogia y didactica infalibles, porque estan basadas en el cariño y respeto mutuo entre abuelos y nietos.Por ultimo, "El sueño de Martina" puede utilizarse como recurso didactico en el area de lenguaje, ya que esta escrito en castellano e ingles, Ademas las intervenciones de cada personaje y del narrador se escriben con tintas de diferentes colores, al objeto de facilitar la lectura en grupo o su escenificacion.

El autor ha refundido dos de sus grandes títulos «Lenguaje y educación» y «El desarrollo del lenguaje», actualizado así los contenidos. La intención es dar una perspectiva didáctica al lector, dirigi

How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Emile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900.

El metodo ICRA fue creado para el análisis, evaluación y abordaje del aspecto pragmático del lengauje en el marco del enfoque fonoaudiologico neurolinguistico. Su eje de análisis es la intención comunicativa a partir de los Actos de Habla blasicos y su objetivos central es el desarrollo de circuitos minimos de comunicacion

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever more complex. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff trace this development through the history of contemporary syntactic theory, showing how much it has been driven by theory-internal rather than empirical considerations. They develop an alternative that is responsive to linguistic, cognitive, computational, and biological concerns. At the core of this alternative is the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis: the most explanatory syntactic theory is one that imputes the minimum structure necessary to mediate between phonology and meaning. A consequence of this hypothesis is a far richer mapping between syntax and semantics than is generally assumed. Through concrete analyses of numerous grammatical phenomena, some well studied and some new, the authors demonstrate the empirical and conceptual superiority of the Simpler Syntax approach. Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intellige

Over the past twenty-five years, Ray Jackendoff has investigated many complex issues in syntax, semantics, and the relation of language to other cognitive domains. He steps back in this new book to survey the broader theoretical landscape in linguistics, in an attempt to identify some of the sources of the widely perceived malaise with respect to much current theorizing.Starting from the "Minimalist" necessity for interfaces of the grammar with sound, meaning, and the lexicon, Jackendoff examines many standard assumptions of generative grammar that in retrospect may be seen as the product of historical accident. He then develops alternatives more congenial to contemporary understanding of linguistic phenomena.The Architecture of the Language Faculty seeks to situate the language capacity in a more general theory of mental representations and to connect the theory of grammar with processing. To this end, Jackendoff works out an architecture that generates multiple co-constraining structures, and he embeds this proposal in a version of the modularity hypothesis called Representational Modularity.Jackendoff carefully articulates the nature of lexical insertion and the content of lexical entries, including idioms and productive affixes. The resulting organization of the grammar is compatible with many different technical realizations, which he shows can be instantiated in terms of a variety of current theoretical frameworks.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 28

Valora: Evaluación de las conductas verbales, los tipos de presentaciones lingüísticas y las reglas para la combinación de las representaciones y los mecanismos que fallan para el procesamiento, es d

El lenguaje y la comunicación humanos son aspectos esenciales de nuestra cultura, nuestros aprendizajes y nuestra afectividad, y forman parte de nuestro ciclo vital desde el nacimiento. Por ello, todo lo que nos permita conocerlos mejor, redundara en nuestra calidad de vida. Es importante detectar a cualquier edad posibles carencias o deficits de este proceso para que la sociedad, y en especial los contextos familiar y escolar, sepan como afrontar dichas carencias. Desde los retrasos y los trastornos del lenguaje que aparecen en los primeros años de vida, hasta las hipoacusias de la tercera edad o los deficits del lenguaje asociados a demencias, existe un importante campo educativo y clinico en el que intervienen logopedas, psicopedagogos, profesores, psicologos clinicos y medicos de diferentes especialidades. Todos colaboran con un mismo objetivo: mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas y favorecer el aprendizaje y el proceso de comunicacion en su conjunto.

Un estudio de los aportes de la Programación Neurolingüística y la Psicología cognitiva para comprender el fenómeno de la comunicación en las organizaciones.

Muchas terapias y técnicas de comunicación buscan cambiar o modificar comportamientos, estados internos, personalidades y demás. La PNL ofrece un modelo diseñado para enriquecer el mundo interno de la persona, ofreciendo más alternativas de acción, respetando sus creencias y valores. Ampliar el mundo de una persona es mucho más que cambiarla: es mantener lo que funciona correctamente y sumarles recursos sustentados por criterios o puntos de referencia más amplios. 

This book deals with words, and how humans learn them, remember them, understand them, and find the ones they want. It discusses the structure and content of the human word-store or ''mental lexicon'' with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers. Since the first two editions of "Words in the Mind" were published, work on the lexicon has exploded. This is reflected in this new edition, which contains substantial additions. One new chapter has been added on layering and meaning change, and several others have been considerably expanded. The notes and suggestions for further reading have been updated, and numerous new references have been included. The book remains accessible in style and easy to read for both undergraduates and non-specialists. "Words in the Mind" deals with words, and how humans learn them, remember them, understand them, and find the ones they want. It discusses the structure and content of the human word-store or ''mental lexicon, with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers. Discusses the structure and content of the human word-store, or ''mental lexicon''. Features a highly informative and accessible account of a central area of research. Incorporates new research on the mental lexicon. Written by a prominent researcher of the mental lexicon, language change, and the language of the media.

Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. ''Few books really deserve the cliche ''this should be read by every researcher in the field,'''' writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, ''But Ray Jackendoff''s Foundations of Language does.'' Foundations of Language offers a radically new understanding of how language, the brain, and perception intermesh. The book renews the promise of early generative linguistics: that language can be a valuable entree into understanding the human mind and brain. The approach is remarkably interdisciplinary. Behind its innovations is Jackendoff''s fundamental proposal that the creativity of language derives from multiple parallel generative systems linked by interface components. this shift in basic architecture makes possible a radical reconception of mental grammar and how it is learned. As a consequence, Jackendoff is able to reintegrate linguistics with philosophy of mind, cognitive and developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and computational linguistics. Among the major topics treated are language processing, the relation of language to perception, the innateness of language, and the evolution of the language capacity, as well as more standard issues in linguistic theory such as the roles of syntax and the lexicon. In addition, Jackendoff offers a sophisticated theory of semantics that incorporates insights from philosophy of language, logic and formal semantics, lexical semantics of various stripes, cognitive grammar, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches, and the author''s own conceptual semantics. Here then is the most fundamental contribution to linguistic theory in over three decades. Jackendoff (linguistics, Brandeis Univ.) tackles the substantial tasks of assessing where Noam Chomsky''s foundation of research has led linguistics and reinterpreting his theory of universal grammar. While embracing many of Chomsky''s ideas, Jackendoff proposes his own overall theory of language. His well-documented discussion covers ''combinatoriality'' (or grammar rules) and language processing, as well as lexical and phrasal semantics. Jackendoff''s inquiry draws on and complements research in neuroscience, psychology, and biol

Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles, rather than by a special-purpose language module. This introductory textbook surveys the field of cognitive linguistics as a distinct area of study, presenting its theoretical foundations and the arguments supporting it. Clearly organised and accessibly written, it provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers the main topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and provides a synthesis of study and research in this fast-growing field of linguistics. The authors begin by explaining the conceptual structures and cognitive processes governing linguistic representation and behaviour, and go on to explore cognitive approaches to lexical semantics, as well as syntactic representation and analysis, focusing on the closely related frameworks of cognitive grammar and construction grammar. This much-needed introduction will be welcomed by students in linguistics and cognitive science.