Shelia Kennison

author of "Psychology of Language: Theory and Applications" and author and editor of "Processing Across Languages"

December 11, 2018

Shelia M. Kennison is a professor of Psychology. She earned her doctorate in Psycholinguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and bachelor’s degree in linguistics and psychology from Harvard University. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Psychonomic Society. She has authored numerous works including academic journal articles and a textbook on the development of language. Her psycholinguistic research has focused on sentence processing in English as well as a variety of other languages, including Arabic, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese and Finnish.

“Psychology of Language: Theory and Applications” is accessibly written and pedagogically rich text, delivering the most comprehensive examination of its subject, carefully drawing on the most up-to-date research. It covers a breadth of the central topics including communication, language acquisition, language processing, language disorders, speech, writing, and development. This book also examines an array of other progressive areas in the field neglected in similar works such as bilingualism, sign language as well as comparative communication.

Based on her globally-orientated research and academic expertise, author Shelia Kennison innovatively applies psycholinguistics to real-world examples through analyzing the heterogeneous traits of a wide variety of languages. With its engaging easy-to-understand prose, this text guides students gently and sequentially through an introduction to the subject. The book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in psycholinguistics.

“Processing Across Languages” aims to highlight research on the processing of words, sentences and discourses across languages. Chapters representing processing in a wide variety of human languages are featured.

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