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Part 1 Introduction: language processing and its role in communication;disorders of language processing and hteir functional consequences; thelanguages; the language code; models of language processing;psycholinguistic analyses of language disorders. Part 2 Recognition ofspoken words: the sound structure of words; processing the acousticsignal for phonetic features and phonological segments; auditory wordrecognition; disturbanes of auditory functioning; disturbances ofacoustic-phonetic processing; acoustic-phonetic processing anddisturbances of lexical access and comprehension; disturbances ofauditory word recognition. Part 3 The meanings of words: the classicalview of concepts and challenges to this view; alternative models ofconcepts; core concepts and identification procedures;modality-specific representations of concepts; semantic deficits. Part4 Production of spoken words: oral production of words; disturbances ofword sound production. Part 5 Reading and writing single words:orthographic representations; processing written language; acquireddyslexias; agraphia; the role of phonological codes in writingsentences; independence of reading and writing; peripheral mechanisms.Part 6 Recognizing and producing morphologically complex words: wordformation in English; processing morphological form; disturbances ofprocessing morphologically complex words. Part 7 Sentencecomprehension: sentence meaning and its relationship to syntacticstructures; alternative accounts of sentence structure; processesinvolved in sentence comprehension; disorders of sentencecomprehension. Part 8 Sentence production: models of sentenceproduction; disorders of sentence production. Part 9 Comprehension andproduction of discourse: the structure of discourse; processingdiscourse structures; disorders affecting the production andcomprehension of discourse-level structures. Part 10 Brief notes onissues relating to diagnosis and treatment of language disorders: apsycholinguistic approach to the assessment of language disorders; thepsycholinguistic assessment of language; the psycholinguisticassessment of language - identification of deficits in languageprocessing components; classification of patients with languagedisorders; neurological mechanisms and aphasia; the relevance oflinguistics and psycholinguistics to therapeutics.