Language: Structure, Processing, and Disorders

I do not know of any other work that approaches the scope and detail of the Caplan book for introductory treatment of contemporary language processing theory in the study of language disorders....This is a very good book, thoughtfully developed for its audience, and it will serve that audience well."
-- Merrill Garrett, "Contemporary Psychology" This theoretical guide for speech-language pathologists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, and cognitive psychologists describes the linguistic and psycholinguistic bases of aphasias that are a result of acquired neurological disease. Chapters are organized around basic linguistic processes such as spoken word recognition, semantics, spoken word production, reading and writing of single words, and more complex processes such as sentence production and discourse structures.