A History Of Psycholinguistics The Prechomskyan Era W J M Levelt by W J M Levelt 9780191627200, 0191627208 instant download after payment.

How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? This book provides a personal history of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies cooperations, and rivalries created the discipline we call psycholinguistics.
Content: ORIENTATION ; 1. 1951 ; ESTABLISHING THE DISCIPLINE: 1770-1900 ; 2. Inventing a Psychology of Language ; 3. From Bumps to Diagrams: Tracing Language in the Brain ; 4. Language Acquisition and the Diary Explosion ; 5. Language in the Laboratory and Modeling Microgenesis ; 6. Willem Wundt's Grand Synthesis ; TWENTIETH-CENTURY PSYCHOLINGUISTICS BEFORE THE 'COGNITIVE REVOLUTION' ; 7. New Perspectives: Structuralism and the Psychology of Imageless Thought ; 8. Verbal Behaviour ; 9. Speech Acts and Functions ; 10. Language Acquisition: Wealth of data, dearth of theory ; 11. Language in the Brain: The lures of holism ; 12. Empirical Studies of Speech and Language Usage ; 13. A New Cross-Linguistic Perspective and Linguistic Relativity ; 14. Psychology of Language During the Third Reich ; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS RE-ESTABLISHED ; 15. Psycholinguistics Post-War, Pre-Chomsky
Abstract: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? This book provides a fascinating personal history of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created the discipline we call psycholinguistics.