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The Articulate Mammal

by Jean Aitchison
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The Articulate Mammal
The Articulate Mammal

A clear gateway into psycholinguistics

Jean Aitchison offers an accessible, concise introduction requiring no prior knowledge. This updated edition explores language acquisition, cognition, evolution, aphasia, and dementia. Full references and further-reading suggestions support deeper study.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Articulate Mammal

by Jean Aitchison
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ISBN: 9780415420228
Author: Jean Aitchison
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 2007-09-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Philosophy
Related Topics: Theory, Evolution, Genetics, Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology, Education
Goodreads rating: 4.05
(rated by 278 readers)

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An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date with recent theories, including new material on: the possibility of a 'language gene', post-Chomskyan ideas, language within an evolutionary framework, spatial cognition and how this affects language, how children become acclimatized to speech rhythms before birth, the acquisition of verbs, construction and cognitive grammar, aphasia and dementia. Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, chapter by chapter, The Articulate Mammal tackles the basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics. Jean Aitchison 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.
 

A clear gateway into psycholinguistics

Jean Aitchison offers an accessible, concise introduction requiring no prior knowledge. This updated edition explores language acquisition, cognition, evolution, aphasia, and dementia. Full references and further-reading suggestions support deeper study.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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