Theoretical and Applied Psycholinguistics*

One of the topics covered here is about the stages in children language acquisition. This section provides useful information about ages, that all parents or caregivers need to be aware of, should come along with their vocabulary accretion. Meaning that children in a particular age should indicate a particular tier of recognized and meaningful words. Furthermore, this also addresses the speech and language delay, that is increasingly becoming an anxious issue especially in the last two decades.

The students doing language studies can make the most of this book. The reason for this is that Psycholinguistics is one of the course units offered. The materials that are presented friendly-language use can help them to gain understanding effectively. However, non-linguistics students such as Psychology, and practitioners, researchers, teachers, parents, and anyone interested in children language development can take advantage of it too. This could be a source for further developmental knowledge of how language processing takes place.

*This book which is published in 2022 was written in collaboration with Fatimatus Zahroh. Double check the publisher website for more info: Theoretical And Applied : PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (penerbitadab.id)


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