Chapter 3, Psychological Mechanisms, has been completely rewritten to reflect contemporary research in working
memory and episodic memory, and their relevance for language processing.
Chapter 4, Perception of Language, now includes a comparison of the dual-route and connectionist models of
reading.
Chapters 6, Sentence Comprehension and Memory, and 8, Production of Speech and Language now have new sections
on the role of working memory in language comprehension and production, respectively.
Chapter 8, Production of Speech and Language has been substantially revised to incorporate newer research on
covert monitoring, the lexical bias effect, and the "tip of the finger" effect in ASL.
The treatment of bilingualism in Chapter 11, Later Language Acquisition, has been updated to reflect the most
current research on this subject.
Chapter 12, Processes of Language Acquisition, now includes a discussion of twin and adoption studies.
Chapters 13, Biological Foundations of Language and 14, Language, Culture, and Cognition have updated discussions
of fMRI studies of language processing and the effects of color on cognition, respectively.
