New edition, thoroughly updated, and incorporating important new linguistic study developments involving apes, brain scans, speech understanding, and other major topical issues.[...]
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author. 'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics...highly recommended.' The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid[...]
Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of "Words in the Mind" offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use.Explores the latest insights into the complex rela[...]
This book gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change, discussing where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes that occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. This substantially revis[...]
Deals with words, and how humans learn them, remember them, understand them, and find the ones they want. This work discusses the structure and content of the human word-store or 'mental lexicon', with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers.[...]
How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of [...]