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psych.york.ac.uk>New from Oxford University Press: The Ascent of Babel: An exploration of language, mind, and understanding. By Gerry T.M. Altmann CONTENTS: 1: Looking towards Babel Introducing the mysteries of psycholinguistics 2: Babies, birth, and language What babies learn about language, even before they are born 3: Chinchillas do it too Learning to discriminate between different sounds 4: Words, and what we learn to do with them Learning about words, and how to combine them 5: Organizing the dictionary Phonemes, syllables, and other ways of looking up words 6: Words, and how we (eventually) find them Accessing the mental representations of words 7: Time flies like an arrow Understanding sentences I: coping with ambiguity 8: Who did what, and to whom? Understanding sentences II: identifying who is being talked about, what they are doing, and who they are doing it to 9: On the meaning of meaning The concepts associated with 'understanding' and 'meaning' 10: Exercising the vocal organs How we produce words and sentences 11: The written word Writing systems, reading, eye movements, and Socrates 12: When it all goes wrong Disorders of language 13: Wiring-up a brain Artificial neural networks and language learning 14: The descent from Babel Not all languages were created equal Bibliography Index Further details are available at the following URLs: For a detailed list of contents: http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1/Babel/outline.html For OUP (UK) blurb: http://www1.oup.co.uk/scripts/readcat?title=The+Ascent+of+Babel For OUP (USA) blurb: http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0198523785.html ================================================================= Dr. Gerry T.M. Altmann g.altmannMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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