LINGUIST List 9.1034

Thu Jul 16 1998

Books: Psycholinguistics

Editor for this issue: Julie Wilson <julielinguistlist.org>

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1. Matthew Papa, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

 
 
 Jean Aitchison, THE ARTICULATE MAMMAL
 An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, 4th Edition
 This highly successful text has been substantially revised to take 
 account of the considerable changes in Chomsky's recent ideas. The 
 chapters on grammatical innateness, child language acquisition, and 
 speech comprehension have been largely rewritten and new material and 
 references throughout the book make it completely up-to-date with key 
 developments in the field.
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Introduction 
 1. The great automatic grammatizor: Need anything be innate? 
 2. Animals that try to talk: Is language restricted to humans? 
 3. Grandmama's teeth: Is there biological evidence for innate language 
 capacity? 
 4.Predestinate grooves: Is there a pre-ordained language 'programme'? 
 5. The blueprint in the brain: What grammatical information might 
 conceivably be innate? 
 6.Chattering children: Are chattering children following `rules' when 
 they learn to speak? 
 7. Puzzling it out: Exactly how do children learn language? 
 8. Celestial unintelligibility: Why propose a transformational 
 grammar?
 9. The white elephant problem: Do we need a transformational grammar 
 in order to speak? 
 10. The case of the missing fingerprint: How do we understand speech? 
 11. The Cheshire Cat's grin: How do we plan and produce speech? 
 12. Banker's clerk or hippopotamus?: The future of psycholinguistics
 Notes and suggestions for further reading 
 References
 
 Routledge: 1998: 320 pp
 CL: 0 415 16866 X: #D5684: $75.00
 PB: 0 415 16791 4: #D5688: $24.99
 
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