Review:
'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics ... highly recommended' - ‘The Washington Post’
'The reader's curiosity about the complexities of the mother tongue is kept right up until the end' - ‘The Times Educational Supplement’
'This is an excellent text which would give the undergraduate student as fine an introduction to the field of psycholinguistics as is available today' - ‘Choice’
'This book is a helpful and informative general introduction to psycholinguistics, presupposing no prior knowledge of the subject. Atchison's exposition is extremely clear and concise, as she has the rare ability to reduce complicated and technical topics to simple sentences.' - ‘ Ronald Gray, TESL-EJ’
New edition of one of our longest-standing bestsellers. The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This new edition will bring the book up to date with recent theories, including discussion on the possibility of a "language gene" and new material about how children become acclimatized by speech rhythms before birth. References to Chomsky’s now outdated work will be reduced and post-Chomsky ideas will be added.There will be new examples and references will be updated throughout.
Nb We will be discussing the possibility of a companion website which would offer primarily offer weblinks and exercises or discussion questions.
This accessible and concise introduction to psycholinguistics requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Chapter by chapter, Jean Aitchison tackles the basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics such as:
- Is language restricted to humans?
- Is there biological evidence for innate language activity?
- Exactly how do children learn language?
- How do we understand, plan and produce language?
She investigates these issues with regard to animal communication, child language and the language of adults and includes in the text full references and helpful suggestions for further reading.
This highly successful book has now been substantially revised. In particular Jean Aitchison has taken 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.
This bestselling accessible and concise introduction to psycholinguistics requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Chapter by chapter, Jean Aitchison tackles basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics.
'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics ... highly recommended' - ‘The Washington Post’
'The reader's curiosity about the complexities of the mother tongue is kept right up until the end' - ‘The Times Educational Supplement’
'This is an excellent text which would give the undergraduate student as fine an introduction to the field of psycholinguistics as is available today' - ‘Choice’
'This book is a helpful and informative general introduction to psycholinguistics, presupposing no prior knowledge of the subject. Atchison's exposition is extremely clear and concise, as she has the rare ability to reduce complicated and technical topics to simple sentences.' - ‘ Ronald Gray, TESL-EJ’
New edition of one of our longest-standing bestsellers. The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This new edition will bring the book up to date with recent theories, including discussion on the possibility of a "language gene" and new material about how children become acclimatized by speech rhythms before birth. References to Chomsky’s now outdated work will be reduced and post-Chomsky ideas will be added.There will be new examples and references will be updated throughout.
Nb We will be discussing the possibility of a companion website which would offer primarily offer weblinks and exercises or discussion questions.
This accessible and concise introduction to psycholinguistics requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Chapter by chapter, Jean Aitchison tackles the basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics such as:
- Is language restricted to humans?
- Is there biological evidence for innate language activity?
- Exactly how do children learn language?
- How do we understand, plan and produce language?
She investigates these issues with regard to animal communication, child language and the language of adults and includes in the text full references and helpful suggestions for further reading.
This highly successful book has now been substantially revised. In particular Jean Aitchison has taken 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.
This bestselling accessible and concise introduction to psycholinguistics requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Chapter by chapter, Jean Aitchison tackles basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics.