Foundations of psycholinguistics

The book "Foundations of Psychological Linguistics" by Fernandez and Curves is a comprehensive book, gathering within its pages issues and discussions of this science, which include: understanding how people acquire language, how they use language to communicate and understand each other, and how language is represented and processed in the brain. The book includes a seasonal review of the fundamental principles of human language, in addition to explaining how production and comprehension occur, as the successive steps of this process from the moment the idea is born in the speaker's mind until it is understood in the listener's mind. The book is written in a style that combines academic rigor and scientific accuracy on one hand, with ease of presentation and style on the other, authored by two researchers and two experts who have spent many years teaching courses in psychological linguistics to university students. This has had a significant impact on the content and style of the book. The authors combined clarifying and explaining the main concepts with reviewing the latest scientific research results related to this topic. Thus, we have combined comprehensiveness and inclusiveness on one hand, with precise follow-up of developments in this field on the other. The advantages of the book are not limited to that; it also includes a description of many research methods and approaches used in this field, and an explanation of their logic in a clear and distinctive educational style. For all these reasons, the book is suitable for the general readers, both specialists and others, and it is also suitable as a study reference for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.