Stefano Rastelli teaches Psycholinguistics at the University of Pavia (Italy) where he directs the Laboratorio di Linguistica e Glottodidattica Sperimentale (LLEGS). He regularly publishes experimental research on syntax, second language acquisition, language usability and statistical learning.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Basic Notions

Chapter 2: A Closer Look at Plain Language: Motivations, Name, Origins and Rules

Chapter 3: Plain Language Myths

Chapter 4: Meaning of 'Plain' in Language Research

Chapter 5: A Little Difficult is Better

Chapter 6: Language Usability

Chapter 7: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part One: Language Processing

Chapter 8: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part Two: The Data

Chapter 9: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part Three: A Reader's Memory

Chapter 10: The Syntactic Reader

Chapter 11: The Statistical Reader

Chapter 12: The Pragmatic Reader

Chapter 13: Making Spoken Language Plain: A Timed Crossmodal Forced-Choice Experiment

Chapter 14: Conclusion: Fifteen Points of Attention

References

Index