Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond
Edited by Carmen Portero Muñoz, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:1 (2026) vi, 273 pp.
BIC SubjectsPsycholinguistics
Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction
Emilia Nottbeck
This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 10] 2026. xv, 246 pp. + index
Eyes on Text: Eye movements in reading and language processing
Cengiz Acartürk
Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science, which consists of linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, education in its corners. The book… read more[Natural Language Processing, 16] 2025. xiii, 342 pp.
Beyond Disfluency: The interplay of speech, gesture, and interaction
Loulou Kosmala
This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis)fluency, evaluating fluency across three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an extensive video dataset covering different languages and speech genres in French and English, the present research goes beyond… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 11] 2024. xii, 264 pp.
Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description
Edited by Mario Serrano-Losada and Daniela Pettersson-Traba
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 (2024) vi, 249 pp.
The Representation and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words
Edited by Lori Buchanan and Roberto G. de Almeida
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:2 (2024) v, 151 pp.
Words in the World
Edited by Laura Teddiman, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:1 (2024) vi, 188 pp.
Perception, Culture and Language
Edited by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar Szabó
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:2 (2023) vi, 239 pp.
Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space
Edited by Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli
Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia
Rachel Hatchard
Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based, generative theory, and summarizes key shortcomings with this approach.… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 31] 2021. xx, 311 pp.
Developments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Edited by Kairong Xiao and Sandra L. Halverson
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 (2021) vi, 278 pp.
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition: A language processing perspective
Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 8] 2021. xv, 274 pp.
Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions
Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman
From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within the field and generate a deeper understanding of key issues and… read more[Not in series, 238] 2021. viii, 229 pp.
Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow
Edited by Wei-lun Lu and Jirí Lukl
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck
This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single, monolithic system of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 70] 2020. vii, 358 pp.
Semantics and Psychology of Complex Words
Edited by Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 15:1 (2020) v, 160 pp.
Visual Metaphors
Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020) vi, 274 pp.
Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen
Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded in… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 65] 2019. xii, 315 pp.
Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor
Bodo Winter
One of the most fundamental capacities of language is the ability to express what speakers see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Sensory Linguistics is the interdisciplinary study of how language relates to the senses. This book deals with such foundational questions as: Which semiotic strategies do… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 20] 2019. xiv, 289 pp.
What is a verb? – Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languages
Edited by Eva Smolka and Dorit Ravid
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 14:2 (2019) v, 164 pp.
Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues
Edited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos
This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA. It is distinctive in two ways. It offers PT-insiders a way to see connections between their familiar traditions and theories with other ways of working. Parallel to this it offers readers who work… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 7] 2019. ix, 404 pp.
Attention to Metaphor: From neurons to representations
Valentina Cuccio
The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed a fundamental scientific discovery: the identification of mirror neurons and, consequently, the development of the Embodied Simulation theory. Neuroscientific data on the mechanism of Embodied Simulation and its role in conceptual and… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 7] 2018. vi, 167 pp.
The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals: Economy and bilingual first language acquisition
Emma Ticio Quesada
This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 56] 2018. xi, 244 pp.
Mental Models across Languages: The visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese
Pawel Sickinger
This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment, native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 63] 2018. xv, 328 pp.
Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1 (2018) v, 187 pp.
Visual Metaphor: Structure and process
Edited by Gerard J. Steen
Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication, including gesture and body language, sound and music, and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 18] 2018. vii, 198 pp.
The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
Michael Fortescue
The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 94] 2017. vi, 192 pp.
Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World
Edited by Marcus Callies and Alexander Onysko
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:1 (2017) v, 169 pp.
Cognition, Language and Aging
Edited by Heather Harris Wright
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including… read more
Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] 2016. xvii, 453 pp.
Linguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing
Edited by Harald Clahsen, Vera Heyer and Jana Reifegerste
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:2 (2016) v, 168 pp.
New Questions for the Next Decade
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Victor Kuperman
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:3 (2016) v, 165 pp.
Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Edited by Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker
Visually Situated Language Comprehension has been compiled as a state-of the-art introduction to real-time language processing in visually-situated contexts. It covers the history of this emergent field, explains key methodological developments and discusses the insights these methods have enabled… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] 2016. x, 358 pp.
Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research
Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
This volume is dedicated to the field of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), addressing important research questions, including: the interrelation of genetic and cognitive profiles of individuals with SLI; the comorbidity issue and clinical boundaries between SLI and other developmental disorders;… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 58] 2015. ix, 327 pp.
Bridging the Methodological Divide: Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to formulaic language
Edited by Stefanie Wulff and Debra Titone
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:3 (2014) v, 126 pp.
Semantic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:1 (2014) iii, 140 pp.
The Spatial Language of Time: Metaphor, metonymy, and frames of reference
Kevin Ezra Moore
The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 42] 2014. xxv, 340 pp.
Words & Constructions: Language complexity in linguistics and psychology
Edited by Juhani Järvikivi, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matti Laine
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:2 (2014) v, 230 pp.
Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora
Edited by Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylvie De Cock
The papers brought together in this volume illustrate how spoken corpora (be they native or learner corpora) can provide insights into various aspects of errors and disfluencies such as pauses and discourse markers. They show, among others, that such phenomena can be influenced by factors like… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 52] 2013. v, 172 pp.
Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language
Edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev
The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due… read more
Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective
Edited by Andrea C. Schalley
There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguistics is an ‘empirical science’. This volume argues for a nuanced view, highlighting that theory and practice necessarily and as a matter of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 40] 2012. xi, 338 pp.
Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion
Edited by Mario Brdar, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs
Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether these frameworks can or should stabilize into a unified theory is open to debate. One set of contributions to the volume focuses on evidence that… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 32] 2011. vii, 362 pp.
Studying Processability Theory: An Introductory Textbook
Edited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler
Processability Theory (PT) as developed by Manfred Pienemann is a prominent theory of second language acquisition. PT serves as a framework for a wide range of research covering issues, including L2 processing, interlanguage variation, typological effects on SLA, L1 transfer, pidgins and creoles,… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 1] 2011. xi, 179 pp.
Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition
Edited by Itiel E. Dror
The use of technology in learning has increased dramatically. Training and education is now utilizing and almost integrated with the World Wide Web, podcasts, mobile and distant learning, interactive videos, serious games, and a whole range of e-learning. However, has such technology enhanced… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 27] 2011. ix, 265 pp.
New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness
Edited by Elaine K. Perry, Daniel Collerton, Fiona E.N. LeBeau and Heather Ashton
A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness. Its eclectic mix will simulate and challenge not only neuroscientists and psychologists but entice others interested… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 79] 2010. xxv, 330 pp.
The Processing of Events
Oliver Bott
Synthesizing ideas from event semantics and psycholinguistics, this monograph provides a new perspective on the processing of linguistic aspect and aspectual coercion. Confronting alternative semantic accounts with experimental evidence, the author develops a comprehensive model of online aspectual… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 162] 2010. xvii, 383 pp.
Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing
Edited by Bill VanPatten and Jill Jegerski
This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e. read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 53] 2010. vii, 351 pp.
Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
Edited by Graham Low, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron
It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems. The notion of 'real world' metaphor research has been developed to describe this important area of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 26] 2010. xii, 385 pp.
Grammar as Processor: A Distributed Morphology account of spontaneous speech errors
Roland Pfau
Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 137] 2009. xiii, 372 pp.
The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech
Stein Bråten
The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech illustrates how recent findings about primary intersubjectivity, participant perception and mirror neurons afford a new understanding of children’s nature, dialogue and language. Based on recent infancy research and the mirror… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 76] 2009. xxii, 351 pp.
Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution
Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani
Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the apex of the uniquely-human language faculty – evolutionary but somehow immune to adaptive… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 85] 2009. vi, 553 pp.
The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity
Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen
The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 12] 2008. xiii, 391 pp.
Child Second Language Acquisition: A bi-directional study of English and Italian tense-aspect morphology
Sonia Rocca
As one of the first books in child second language acquisition (SLA), this book focuses on the core area of tense-aspect morphology, reporting on three L1-Italian children learning L2 English vs. three L1-English children learning L2 Italian. An innovative longitudinal/bidirectional research… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 35] 2007. xvi, 240 pp.
Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition
Edited by Itiel E. Dror
Technology has long been a helpful aid in human cognitive activities. With its growing sophistication and usage, technology is now taking a more intrinsic and active role in human cognition. The shift from an external aid to being an internal component of cognitive processing reflects a revolution… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 12] 2007. xii, 186 pp.
Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Barbara Köpke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer and Susan Dostert
This collection of articles provides theoretical foundations and perspectives for language attrition research. Its purpose is to enable investigations of L1 attrition to avail themselves more fully and more fundamentally of the theoretical frameworks that have been formulated with respect to SLA… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 33] 2007. vii, 258 pp.
Mental States: Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature
Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos
Collecting the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, archaeologists, artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Starting from questions about the cognitive capacities of the early… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 92] 2007. xii, 304 pp.
Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure
Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos
The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 93] 2007. x, 362 pp.
Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts
Edited by Jan D. ten Thije and Ludger Zeevaert
Receptive multilingualism refers to the language constellation in which interlocutors use their respective mother tongue while speaking to each other. Since the mid-nineties receptive multilingualism is promoted by the European commission on par with other possibilities of increasing the mobility… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 6] 2007. x, 328 pp.
Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy
Cameron Shelley
A multiple analogy is a structured comparison in which several sources are likened to a target. In Multiple analogies in science and philosophy, Shelley provides a thorough account of the cognitive representations and processes that participate in multiple analogy formation. Through analysis of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 11] 2003. xvi, 167 pp.
Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications
Edited by Gary D. Prideaux, Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker
Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities. In order to carry out experimental studies in language it is, of course, necessary to have a descriptive system for the stimuli, and formal linguistics has provided a plethora of alternative… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 3] 1980. vi, 321 pp.