The ascent of Babel : an exploration of language, mind, and understanding

The ascent of Babel : an exploration of language, mind, and understanding / Gerry T.M. Altmann ; illustrations by Andrea Enzinger.

Altmann describes - in terms accessible to the non-specialist reader - the ways in which the mind produces and understands language, and the state-of-the-art of our understanding of the mental processes which underlie our use of language.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Altmann, Gerry T. M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Psycholinguistics.
psycholinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics.
Psycholinguistics
Kognitive Entwicklung
Psycholinguistik
Sprache
Spracherwerb
Sprachtheorie
Kognitionswissenschaft
Sprachursprung
Taal.
Denken.
Begrip.
Cognition et langage.
Psycholinguistique.
17.30 psycholinguistics: general.
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Table of Contents:
  • Looking towards Babel: introducing the mysteries of psycholinguistics
  • Babies, birth, and language: what babies learn about language, even before they are born
  • Chinchillas do it too: learning to discriminate between different sounds
  • Words, and what we learn to do with them: learning about words, and how to combine them
  • Organizing the dictionary: phonemes, syllables, and other ways of looking up words
  • Words, and how we (eventually) find them: accessing the mental representations of words
  • Time flies like an arrow: understanding sentences I, coping with ambiguity
  • Who did what, and to whom?: understanding sentences II, identifying who is being talked about, what they are doing, and who they are doing it to
  • On the meaning of meaning: the concepts associated with 'understanding' and 'meaning'
  • Exercising the vocal organs: how we produce words and sentences
  • The written word: writing systems, reading, eye movements, and Socrates
  • When it all goes wrong: disorders of language
  • Wiring-up a brain: artificial brains and language learning
  • The descent from Babel: not all languages were created equal.

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