This textbook offers a cutting edge introduction to psycholinguistics, exploring the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and use. It provides students and faculty with:? a step-by-step tour through language acquisition, production, and comprehension, from the word level to sentences and dialogue rich coverage of both theory and data, including in-depth descriptions of the experimental evidence behind theories a comprehensive review of research in bilingual language processing, sign language, reading, and the neurological basis of language production and comprehension perspectives on the subject from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology, and neurophysiology a full program of resources for instructors and students, including review exercises, a test bank, and lecture slides, available upon publication at www.