A history of psycholinguistics : the pre-Chomskyan era /
How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them?These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "&q...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; Part 1 Orientation; 1 1951; The Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in Psychology and Linguistics and its follow-up; Cornell 1951; Indiana 1953; George Miller's Language and communication; Karl Lashley's The problem of serial order in behavior; Other 1951 milestones; Part 2 Establishing the discipline: 1770-1900; 2 Inventing a psychology of language; The origins of language; From the Enlightenment to Romanticism; Historical and comparative philology; The root barrier and beyond.
- Darwinian evolution and language originsHeymann Steinthal; Psychology; Language genesis; Disorders of language and speech; Steinthal's invention; Retrospect; 3 From bumps to diagrams: Tracing language in the brain; The physiognomic beginnings; Against localization; Phrenology without bumps; The left hemisphere and Broca's area; Trousseau seeds confusion; Carl Wernicke and the diagram makers; Baginsky; Wernicke 1874; The Wernicke-Lichtheim model; Diagram makers and making diagrams; Adolf Kussmaul's textbook; One more diagram maker: Jean-Martin Charcot; Some non-localizationist sounds.
- Retrospect4 Language acquisition and the diary explosion; Perspectives on language acquisition; Early scholars of language acquisition; Jean Héroard; Dietrich Tiedemann and Moritz von Winterfeld; Berthold Sigismund; Hippolyte Taine and Charles Darwin; Jan Baudouin de Courtenay; Bernard Perez; Fritz Schultze; Ludwig Strümpell; William Preyer; George Romanes; Gabriel Compayré and Gabriel Deville; Frederick Tracy; James Sully; Kathleen Carter Moore; Wilhelm Ament; The community of child language researchers; Issues and controversies in child language; Origins of child language; Sound development.
- Inner speech developmentOntogenesis recapitulating phylogenesis; Gestures and gesture languages; Charles-Michel de l'Épée and Joseph-Marie Degérando; The demise of Deaf sign language; Retrospect; 5 Language in the laboratory and modeling microgenesis; Mental chronometry: Franciscus Donders; Phonetics and Wolfgang von Kempelen's speaking machine; Reading and naming; Hubert von Grashey; James McKeen Cattell; Benno Erdmann and Raymond Dodge; Walter Pillsbury and Oscar Quanz; Edmund Huey; Speech perception and William Bagley; Verbal learning, memory, and habits; Hermann Ebbinghaus.
- Benjamin BourdonAssociation and analogy; Francis Galton; Martin Trautscholdt; James McKeen Cattell; Joseph Jastrow and Gustav Aschaffenburg; Albert Thumb and Karl Marbe; Speech errors; Rudolf Meringer and Carl Mayer; Heath Bawden; Retrospect; 6 Wilhelm Wundt's grand synthesis; A productive life; Wundt's psychology; Experimental and ethnic psychology; Association and apperception; Voluntarism; Expressive movements; Sign language; Types of sign language; Pointing, imitating, and abstract signs; Grammatical categories and sign syntax.