The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics - Softcover

Aitchison, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415167914 ISBN 13: 9780415167918

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, this text tackles basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics, such as whether language is restricted to humans, whether there is biological evidence for innate language activity, how children learn language, and how we understand, plan and produce language. The author investigates these issues with regard to animal communication, child language and the language of adults, and provides references and suggestions for further reading.;The book has been substantially revised, in particular taking account of the considerable changes in Chomsky's recent ideas. As a result, the chapters on grammatical innateness, child language acquisition and speech comprehension have been largely rewritten.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Aitchison was Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford from 1993 to 2003, and is now an Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. She is the author of numerous books on language and gave the 1996 BBC Reith lectures on the topic of ‘The Language Web’.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415167914
• ISBN 13: 9780415167918
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 320