The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race. Yet it remains a mysterious process. The science of psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and representations underlying human language. This interdisciplinary field has seen massive developments over the last decades, with a broad expansion of the research base, and the incorporation of new experimental techniques such as brain imaging and computational modelling. The result is that real progress is being made in the understanding of the key components of language in the mind.

This new and expanded edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics brings together the views of over 80 experts in various domains of psycholinguistic research, offering a comprehensive and authoritative review of the field. With contributions from the fields of psychology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, attention, genetics, development, and neuropsychology divided into five themed sections, this new edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics is unparalleled in its breadth of coverage.

The comprehensive nature of this book coupled with the accessibility of the short chapter format makes this handbook essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neuroscience.

Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of York, UK. Her research in psycholinguistics has largely focused on understanding the role of the social world in language comprehension, the neural correlates of language comprehension, and bilingual language comprehension.

Gareth Gaskell is a Professor of Psychology at The University of York, UK. His first degree was at Cambridge University, and he was awarded a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. Prof. Gaskell has strong interests in both psycholinguistics and memory, with a particular focus on the interface between the two. He has developed a model of spoken-word recognition, and has studied written and spoken language perception and production across a wide range of languages. More recently he has explored the involvement of sleep in the process of learning and consolidating linguistic knowledge in adults and children.

Part One: Language Comprehension
Section One: Sublexical Level
1. Segmentation of speech, Laurence White
Section Two: Lexical Level
2. Spoken word recognition, Michael S. Vitevitch, Cynthia S.Q. Siew, and Nichol Castro
3. Visual word recognition, Kathleen Rastle
4. Lexico-semantics, Lotte Meteyard and Gabriella Vigliocco
5. Lexical Ambiguity, Jennifer Rodd
6. Visual word recognition in multilinguals, Ton Dijkstra and Walter JB van Heuven
7. Varieties of Semantic Deficit: Single Word Comprehension, Elizabeth Jefferies and Hannah Thompson
Section Three: Sentence and Discourse Level
8. Sentence comprehension, Maryellen C. MacDonald and Yaling Hsiao
9. Text Comprehension, Evelyn C. Ferstl
10. Bilingual sentence processing, Arturo E. Hernandez, Eva M. Fernandez, and Noemi Aznar-Bese
11. Sentence level aphasia, David Caplan
12. Language in Deaf Populations: Signed Language and Orthographic Processing, David P. Corina and Laurel A. Lawyer
Part Two: Language Production
Section One: Sublexical Level
13. Speech Production: Integrating Psycholinguistic, Neuroscience, and Motor Control Perspectives, Grant Walker and Gregory Hickok
14. Links between Perception and Production: Examining the roles of motor and premotor cortices in understanding speech, Carolyn McGettigan and Pascale Tremblay
Section Two: Lexical Level
15. Spoken word production: Representation, Retrieval and Integration, Linda R. Wheeldon and Agnieszka E. Konopka
16. Connectionist Principles in Theories of Speech Production, Laurel Brehm and Matthew Goldrick
17. From Thought to Action: Producing Written Language, Brenda Rapp and Markus F. Damian
18. Grammatical Encoding, Victor S. Ferreira, Adam Morgan, and L. Robert Slevc
Section Three: Sentence and Discourse Level
19. Cross-linguistic/bilingual language production, Francesca M. Branzi, Marco Calabria, and Albert Costa
20. The relationship between syntactic production and comprehension, Peter Indefrey
21. Word production and related processes: evidence from aphasia, Myrna F. Schwartz
22. Attention and Structural Choice in Sentence Production, Andriy Myachykov, Mikhail Pokhoday, and Russell Tomlin
Part Three: Interaction and Communication
Section One:
23. Perspective-Taking During Conversation, Sarah Brown-Schmidt and Daphna Heller
24. Alignment during Interaction, Simon Garrod, Alessia Tosi, and Martin J. Pickering
25. Role of Gesture in Language Processing: Towards a Unified Account for Production and Comprehension, Asli Ozyurek
26. Pragmatics and Inference, Alan Garnham
27. Experimental Pragmatics, Ira Noveck
28. Language Comprehension, Emotion and Sociality: aren't we missing something?, Jos J. A. van Berkum
Part Four: Language Development and Evolution
Section One: Ontogenetic Development
29. Development of Prosodic Phonology, Katherine Demuth
30. Statistical Learning, Lucia Sweeney and Rebecca L. Gomez
31. First Word Learning, Marilyn May Vihman
32. Language and conceptual development, Susan A. Gelman and Steven O. Roberts
33. Artifical Grammar Learning and its Neurobiology in Relation to Language Processing and Development, Julia Udden and Claudia Mannel
34. Developmental Dyslexia, Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas, Julia M. Carroll, and Margaret J. Snowling
35. Developmental Language Disorder, Cristina McKean, James Law, Angela Morgan, and Sheena Reilly
Section Two: Phylogenetic Development
36. Evolution of Speech, Bart de Boer and Tessa Verhoef
37. The Genetics of Language: from Complex Genes to Complex Communication, Paolo Devanna, Dan Dediu, and Sonja C. Vernes
38. Models of Language Evolution, Cathleen O'Grady and Kenny Smith
Part Five: Methodological Advances in Psycholinguistic Research
Section One:
39. Generalizing over encounters: statistical and theoretical considerations, Dale J. Barr
40. Cognitive Electrophysiology of Language, Thomas P. Urbach and Marta Kutas
41. Source estimation, connectivity and pattern analysis of EEG/MEG data in psycholinguistics, Olaf Hauk
42. New fMRI methods for the study of language, Roel M. Willems and Marcel A. J. van Gerven
43. Intracranial electrophysiology in language research, Adeen Flinker, Vitoria Piai, and Robert T. Knight