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1 online resource (235 pages) |
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Psychology Library Editions: Speech and Language Disorders Ser |
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Psychology Library Editions: Speech and Language Disorders Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Foreword; Apologies, Justification and Thanks; Contents; Text Illustrations; Plates at End; Acknowledgements; Chapter I. Short History Of The Problem; Proem; The Problem Restated; History and Evolution; The Annal; Narrator's Parenthetical Remark; Chapter II. The Forerunners; The Scene of Action; The Cast; Animals; Animal Language; Chapter III. The Human Stock; The Protagonist Introduced; Pithecanthropus; Pithecanthropus' Behaviour Analysed; The Respiratory and Alimentary Tracts; The Larynx; Voice |
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Vocal AttacksAspirated Attack or Sighing; Soft Attack; Hard Attack or Glottal Stop; Nasality; Linguistic Use of the Attacks; Mouth and Throat; Sucking; In the Beginning was the Need; Clicks; Rhythm; Chapter IV. Unfledged Language; The Three Rungs of Meaning; The Lowermost Rung of Meaning; Sinanthropus; Piltdown Man; Heidelberg Man; Chellean Culture; Chellean Language; Chapter V. New- Fledged Language; Amalgamation of Sucking and Voicing; The Stages of Babbling; The Meaning of Babbling; Rhodesian Man; Negroes; Mousterian Man (Homo Primigenius); Acheulian and Mousterian Cultures |
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Mousterian LanguageHalf-clicked Sounds; Consonants; Reiteration; Lalling; Aurignacian Man; Aurignacian Culture; Aurignacian Language; The Second Rung of Meaning; Magic Speech; Onomatopceia; Symbolic Language; The Magdalenian Age; Magdalenian Language; Chapter VI. Full-Fledged Language; The Azilians; Azilian Language; The Uppermost Rung of Meaning; Non-reiterative Speech; Grammatical Categories; Word Coinage; Here Endeth the Narrative; Index |
| Summary |
For many centuries scientists and philosophers have endeavoured to solve the baffling problem of human language. Originally published in 1949, Dr Stein had been fascinated by this problem and collected an enormous amount of data from past and present ages which, when viewed together, shed light upon the origin, evolution and meaning of human speech. He adheres to the broad concept that the development of the individual is a brief recapitulation of the evolution of the race, and has attempted to apply this principle to the solution of the problem of language. For this purpose, he has delved into the realms of prehistory, history, comparative philology, anatomy, physiology and psychology and has made conjectures from his data as to the prehistoric patterns of human speech. Where direct evidence is lacking he has resorted boldly to analogy and fantasy. The result is an intriguing mosaic which should prove interesting to all those concerned with the promotion of human relations which are, to a great extent, dependent on communication through speech. The work is crowned by the fact that his assumptions were being verified by the promising results obtained in the treatment of speech disorders based upon them at the time |
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Children -- Language.
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Language and languages.
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Speech.
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Speeches, addresses, etc.
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languages (study discipline)
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language (general communication)
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speeches (documents)
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speeches (compositions)
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speech (communication function)
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history of language.
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human speech.
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infant.
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language development.
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theory of language.
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Children -- Language
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Language and languages
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Speech
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429788796 |
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0429788797 |
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