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 to 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 concise and readable introduction to psycholinguistics requires on prior knowledge of the subject. Jean aitchison addresses key questions such as: Is language restricted to humans? Is there biologica evidence for innate language capacity? How do children learn language? How do we understand and produce speech? This widley used and highly successful book has been extensively revised. In this 4th edition, Jean Aitchison covers new work on 'talking animals', on language and the brain, on child language, and speech understanding. She also discusses the pros and cons of Chomsky's recent ideas. As a result, several chapters of the book have been largely rewritten, and new references have been added throughout.
目錄
王宗炎序
導讀
Introduction
1 The great automatic grammatizator
Need anything be innate?
2 Animals that try to talk
Is language restricted to humans?
3 Grandmama's teeth
Is there biological evidence for innate language capacity?
4 Predestinate grooves
Is there a pre-ordained language‘programme’?
5 A blueprint in the brain?
Could any grammatical information conceivably be innate?
6 Chattering children
Are children following ‘rules’when they learn to speak?
7 Puzzling it out
Exactly how do children learn language?
8 Celestial unintelligibility
Why do linguists propose such bizarre grammars?
9 The while elephant problem
Do we need a grammar in order to speak?
10 The Case of the missing fingerprint
How do we understand speech?
11 The Cheshire Cat's grin
How do we Plan and produce speech?
12 Banker's clerk or hippopotamus?
The future
suggestions for further reading
References
Index
文庫索引
王宗炎序
導讀
Introduction
1 The great automatic grammatizator
Need anything be innate?
2 Animals that try to talk
Is language restricted to humans?
3 Grandmama's teeth
Is there biological evidence for innate language capacity?
4 Predestinate grooves
Is there a pre-ordained language‘programme’?
5 A blueprint in the brain?
Could any grammatical information conceivably be innate?
6 Chattering children
Are children following ‘rules’when they learn to speak?
7 Puzzling it out
Exactly how do chil...
購物須知
退換貨說明:
會員均享有10天的商品猶豫期(含例假日)。若您欲辦理退換貨,請於取得該商品10日內寄回。
辦理退換貨時,請保持商品全新狀態與完整包裝(商品本身、贈品、贈票、附件、內外包裝、保證書、隨貨文件等)一併寄回。若退回商品無法回復原狀者,可能影響退換貨權利之行使或須負擔部分費用。
訂購本商品前請務必詳閱退換貨原則。