The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics by Jean Aitchison
The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics by Jean Aitchison
Routledge; 5 edition | October 30, 2007 | English | ISBN: 0415420164 | 313 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Routledge; 5 edition | October 30, 2007 | English | ISBN: 0415420164 | 313 pages | PDF | 2 MB
An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date with recent theories, including new material on:
the possibility of a ‘language gene’
post-Chomskyan ideas
language within an evolutionary framework
spatial cognition and how this affects language
how children become acclimatized to speech rhythms before birth
the acquisition of verbs
construction and cognitive grammar
aphasia and dementia.