A history of psycholinguistics : the pre-Chomskyan era / Willem J.M. Levelt.

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Levelt, W. J. M. (Willem J. M.), 1938- [Browse]
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English
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1st ed.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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xviii, 653 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [579]-621) and index.
    Contents
    • Note continued: The Wemicke-Lichtheim model
    • Diagram makers and making diagrams
    • Adolf Kussmaul's textbook
    • One more diagram maker: Jean-Martin Charcot
    • Some non-localizationist sounds
    • Retrospect
    • 4.Language acquisition and the diary explosion
    • Perspectives on language acquisition
    • Early scholars of language acquisition
    • Jean Heroard
    • Dietrich Tiedemann and Moritz von Winterfeld
    • Berthold Sigismund
    • Hippolyte Taine and Charles Darwin
    • Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
    • Bernard Perez
    • Fritz Schultze
    • Ludwig Strumpell
    • William Preyer
    • George Romanes
    • Gabriel Compayre 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 development
    • Ontogenesis recapitulating phylogenesis
    • Gestures and gesture languages --
    • Note continued: Charles-Michel de l'Epee and Joseph-Marie Degirando
    • The demise of Deaf sign language
    • 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 Bourdon
    • Association and analogy
    • Francis Galton
    • Martin Trautscholdt
    • Joseph Jastrow and Gustav Aschaffenburg
    • Albert Thumb and Karl Marbe
    • Speech errors
    • Rudolf Meringer and Carl Mayer
    • Heath Bawden
    • 6.Wilhelm Wundt's grand synthesis
    • A productive life
    • Wundt's psychology
    • Experimental and ethnic psychology
    • Association and apperception
    • Voluntarism --
    • Note continued: Expressive movements
    • Sign language
    • Types of sign language
    • Pointing, imitating, and abstract signs
    • Grammatical categories and sign syntax
    • No match to spoken languages, but a window on the origins of language
    • Speech sounds
    • Evolution of vocal expression
    • Children's acquisition of sound patterns
    • Natural sounds
    • Folk psychology of sound change
    • Three types of sound change in the individual and in the language community
    • Contact effects: assimilation and dissimilation
    • Distance effects: analogy
    • Regular sound change: Grimm's laws
    • Words
    • Word formation in brain and mind
    • Parts of speech
    • Meaning change
    • Formulating sentences
    • Where do sentences come from?
    • Varieties of syntax and phrase structure
    • Sentence prosody
    • Outer and internal speech form
    • The origins of language
    • Wundt's psycholinguistic legacy
    • Epilogue: turning the century --
    • Note continued: pt. 3 Twentieth-century psycholinguistics before the "cognitive revolution"
    • 7.New perspectives: Structuralism and the psychology of imageless thought
    • Emerging structuralism: Taine, Baudouin de Courtenay, and Saussure
    • Structuralism and the psychology of language: Sechehaye
    • Parisian structuralism and Henri Delacroix
    • The psychology of imageless thought: the Wurzburg school
    • The Buhler-Wundt clash
    • Otto Selz and Charlotte Buhler on sentence formulation
    • Otto Selz
    • Charlotte Buhler
    • 8.Verbal behavior
    • Heterogeneous behaviorism
    • Watson and vocalic thought
    • Speech for social control: Grace de Laguna and John Markey
    • From Stumpf to Bloomfield
    • Max Meyer
    • Albert Paul Weiss
    • Leonard Bloomfield
    • Bloomfield's behaviorist heritage: Zellig Harris and Noam Chomsky
    • Kantor's psycholinguistics
    • Burrhus Frederic Skinner
    • Mediation theory
    • Semantic conditioning
    • Cofer and Foley's analysis --
    • Note continued: Charles Osgood's theory and measurement of meaning
    • Hobart Mowrer: the sentence as conditioning device
    • 9.Speech acts and functions
    • Philip Wegener and Adolf Reinach, the pioneers
    • Alan Gardiner: the functions of word and sentence
    • Karl Buhler
    • From Wurzburg to Vienna
    • The functions of language
    • The Organon Model
    • The two-field theory of reference
    • The deictic field
    • The symbol field: a two-class system
    • The principle of abstractive reference
    • Lexicon
    • Syntax
    • Composition
    • Case structure
    • The sound stream
    • Buhler's axioms
    • Buhler and the Prague school
    • Functions and speech acts in retrospect
    • 10.Language acquisition: Wealth of data, dearth of theory
    • Clara and William Stern
    • Leading twentieth-century scholars and research teams before the "cognitive revolution"
    • Michael Vincent O'Shea
    • Ivan Gheorgov and studies of self-reference
    • Jules Ronjat and Milivoie Pavlovitch --
    • Note continued: Scandinavian diary studies: Otto Jespersen
    • Jacques van Ginneken
    • Emit Froschels
    • Jean Piaget
    • Lev Semenovich Vygotsky
    • Elemer Kenyeres
    • David and Rosa Katz
    • Yosikazu Ohwaki
    • Ovide Decroly
    • The Institutes of Child Welfare
    • Michael Morris Lewis and his sources
    • Antoine Gregoire
    • Roman Jakobson
    • Aleksandr Gvozdev and Werner Leopold
    • The growth of vocabulary and utterance complexity
    • Studies in speech sound development
    • From first cries to words: Lewis, Buhler, and Hetzer
    • Physiology, environment, and heredity in early sound formation: Gregoire and van Ginneken
    • Sound assimilation and children's early words: Rottger's dissertation
    • Jakobson on universals of phonological development
    • The Child Welfare Institutes on early sound development
    • Sound development in Gvozdev's and Leopold's diaries
    • Language acquisition in bilingual environments
    • Retrospect: data, theory, and method --
    • Note continued: 11.Language in the brain: The lures of holism
    • Joseph Jules Dejerine
    • Pierre Marie
    • Pierre Marie's "deconstruction"
    • The aphasia debate
    • The aftermath
    • A German response: Hugo Liepmann
    • The continuing German tradition
    • Carl Wernicke
    • Wernicke's assistants
    • Constantin von Monakow
    • A psychological approach to agrammatism: Arnold Pick
    • Responses to Pick
    • Karl Kleist
    • Max Isserlin's adaptation theory
    • Henry Head: a holist's view on theory in aphasiology
    • Words as units of speech
    • Centers and their lesions
    • Adaptation
    • Aphasic syndromes
    • Localization
    • Methodology
    • Kurt Goldstein and the single case study
    • Holism and the organismic approach
    • General effects of brain damage
    • Instrumentalities and abstract language
    • Inner speech
    • Language functions
    • Forms of language disturbance
    • Epilogue
    • Theodore Weisenburg and Katherine McBride: aphasia is diverse --
    • Note continued: Other American contributions
    • Alexander Romanovich Luria
    • The systems approach
    • Data base
    • The structure of speech activity
    • Phonemic analysis
    • Temporal lobe systems
    • Frontal systems
    • Parieto-occipital systems
    • 12.Empirical studies of speech and language usage
    • Perception and production of speech and language
    • Perceiving consonants and vowels
    • Harvey Fletcher's approach to intelligibility
    • Perceiving words: noise and number of alternatives
    • Skinner's "verbal summator" and response bias
    • Articulation
    • Delayed speech
    • Meaning
    • Associations
    • Scaling
    • Meaningfulness
    • Content analysis
    • Phonetic symbolism
    • Metaphor and physiognomy
    • Verbal learning and memory: orders of approximation
    • The statistical approach
    • The rank-frequency distribution
    • The number-of-words-frequency distribution: Zipfs law
    • Zipfs law in associations
    • Diversity of words in language usage --
    • Note continued: Yule on the statistics of style
    • Word frequency and recognition threshold
    • Word frequency and word association
    • Transitional probabilities
    • Individual differences
    • Linguistic abilities
    • Projective-clinical
    • Personality
    • Reading
    • Edmund Huey's text
    • Tachistoscopic studies
    • Eye-tracking studies
    • The Stroop paradigm
    • 13.A new cross-linguistic perspective and linguistic relativity
    • Verticalism
    • Horizontalism
    • Arthur Hocart
    • Franz Boas
    • Edward Sapir and linguistic relativism
    • The world view approach and linguistic relativism
    • Johann Leo Weisgerber
    • Benjamin Whorf, self-taught linguist
    • Whorf's "horizontalism"
    • Whorf on linguistic relativism
    • Whorf's universalism
    • Whorf and the public interest
    • Clear language
    • Lady Welby-Gregory
    • Dutch Significa
    • General Semantics
    • George Orwell
    • Some Soviet thoughts
    • Studies of relativity after Sapir-Whorf --
    • Note continued: The 1953 Conference on Language in Culture
    • The codability experiments: Eric Lenneberg and Roger Brown
    • The coding of facial expressions
    • Grammatical categories and cognition
    • Retrospect: John Carroll's verdict
    • 14.Psychology of language during the Third Reich
    • Language, race, and world view
    • The 1931 Hamburg Congress of the German Psychological Society
    • The 1933 Leipzig Congress of the German Psychological Society
    • The 1933 "restoration" of the universities
    • William and Clara Stern
    • Ernst Cassirer
    • Heinz Werner
    • Kurt Goldstein and Adhemar Gelb
    • Wolfgang Kohler
    • Max Isserlin
    • 1933-1938: some further developments
    • The Austrian Anschlu B
    • The fate of the Buhlers
    • Frieda Eisler
    • Emil Froschels
    • Nikolaj Trubetskoy
    • German neurologists in war time
    • Friedrich Kainz
    • pt. 4 Psycholinguistics re-established --
    • Note continued: 15.Psycholinguistics post-war, pre-Chomsky
    • The 1950 Conference on Speech Communication
    • The British scene
    • Some further developments in the study of the brain and language
    • Soviet Union
    • Germany
    • United Kingdom
    • United States
    • France and Belgium
    • Italy
    • Canada: Wilder Penfield and electrical brain stimulation
    • Geza Revesz and the Amsterdam symposium on thinking and speaking
    • Old and new in developmental psycholinguistics
    • Second-language learning and bilingualism
    • Experimental studies of language acquisition
    • The state of general psycholinguistics since 1951.
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    OCLC
    820522048
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