Articulate Mammal - An Introduction to Psycholinguistics

List of contents

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition  Preface to the first edition.  Preface to the fifth edition.  Introduction  1.The great automatic grammatizator  2.Animals that try to talk  3.Grandmama's teeth  4.Predestinate grooves  5.A blueprint in the brain?  6.Chattering children  7.Puzzling it out  8.Celestial unintelligibility  9.The white elephant problem  10.The case of the missing fingerprint  11.The Cheshire Cat's grin  12.Banker's clerk or hippopotamus?  Suggestions for further reading  References
 Index

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’.

Summary

A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Aitchison, Jean (University of Oxford Aitchison, Aitchison Jean
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9781138834774
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83477-4
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics