<P>This is a Classic Edition of Dorothy Bishop''s award-winning textbook on the development of language comprehension, which has been in print since 1997, and now includes a new introduction from the author. The book won the British Psychological Society book award in 1999, and is now widely seen as a classic in the field of developmental language disorders.</P><P></P><I><P>Uncommon Understanding</I> provides a comprehensive account of the process of comprehension, from the reception of an acoustic signal, to the interpretation of communicative intentions, and integrates a vast field of research on language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology. In the new introduction Dorothy Bishop reflects on the organization of the book, and developments in the field since the book was first published.</P><P></P><P>A major theme in the book is that comprehension should not be viewed as a unitary skill ¿ to understand spoken language one needs the ability to classify incoming speech sou
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