本书是一本论文集。多位世界知名学者立足于语言学、认知和发展心理学、神经心理学、心理语言学、病理语言学等特定学科领域，从不同维度、不同理论视角、不同研究方法出发，共同探讨语言认知的奥秘。本书内容全面，用语简单易懂，堪称语言认知与神经心理学界面研究的一部佳作。

Contributors xxvi
preface xxix
CORINE ASTESANO AND MELANIE JUCLA
Acknowledgements xxxii
Foreword xxxiii
DAVID N.CAPLAN
Introduction 1
1 Neuropsycholinguistics according to Jean-Luc Nespoulous 3
PART 1 Linguistic mechanisms and the architecture of language 13
2 Phonological markedness,acquisition and language pathology:What is left of the Jakobsonian legacy? 15
3 Function versus regions in spatial language:A fundamental distinction 31
4 From language acquisition to language pathology:Cross-linguistic perspectives 46
5 Semantic subcategories of nouns and verbs:A neurolinguistic review on healthy adults and patients with Alzheimer’s disease 61
PART 2 The relationship between language and other cognitive processes 75
6 Phonological similarity can also impair transcoding:A study in French 77
7 Influence of musical expertise on the perception of pitch,duration and intensity variations in speech and harmonic sounds 88
8 Gestures and multimodal communication:Developmental and pathological aspects 103
9 Cognitive processes underlying pragmatic impairments after a right-hemisphere lesion 117
PART 3 Assessment of speech & language disabilities and compensatory mechanisms 129
10 Describing and interpreting variability in agrammatic speech production 131
11 Disability,repair strategies and communicative effectiveness at the phonic level:Evidence from a multiple-case study 144
12 Applying phonetic investigation methods to the assessment of dysphonia and dysarthria 166
13 Allying information and communications technology with (psycho)linguistic sciences to design alternative and augmentative communication systems for persons with speech and motor impairment 183
Appendix 6.1 199
Index 201