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by Dorothy V.M. Bishop (Author) "Language is so readily acquired and so universal in human affairs that it is easy to forget what a complex phenomenon it is ..." (more)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Psychology Press; 1 edition (27 Feb 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0863775012
ISBN-13: 978-0863775017
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm

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"Bishop does not shy away from controversy, and yet she is even handed, thoughtful and very fair. . .[She] uses the clearest possible language to make her points, and provides her readers with a roadmap, summaries, overviews, and many other sign posts along the way. . .The organization of the book as a whole is crystal clear. . .This book is a major contribution to research, teaching and clinical practice in childhood language disorders. I predict that it will be very successful, and we will all be the better for it."
-Elizabeth Bates, University of California at San Diego
"This book integrates research in language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we call," comprehension."

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A unique book integrating research in language aquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we call 'comprehension'. The empahsis of the book is on children with specific language impairments.

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This book should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics and philosophy of language as they could be applied to understanding language pathologies, e.g. in autistic children.

It provides a substantial antidote of practial psycholinguistic experience to the usual circuituous reasoning of these other fields. While the author's main focus is on language impairment, it is the background knowledge that is simply shackled to the task that is most striking.

No single theory is examined at length, be it phonology, morphology or grammar, but sufficent bits and pieces are available to make the book more than just a interesting blend of ideas. It is difficult to introduce a range of differing, and often conflicting models, without reducing a text to the academic equivalent of a dog's dinner. The author, to her credit, admirably and illuminatingly avoids this pitfall.

The primary audiences for the book are psychologists and speech and language therapists, but many other research groups would benefit from studying her work and by paying attention to her 'feet on the ground' accounts of language usage and problems.

I was aware that the author has a long standing interest in autism before buying the book, and it was useful to have her thoughts on autistic communication problems collected here.

Taken as a whole, the book is excellent value. Possibly not sufficiently replete with hard core formalism to charm every linguist, but very useful to anyone interested in the psychological reality of language usage and dysfunction.

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