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1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Psycholinguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-252) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics
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psycholinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics
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Kognitive Entwicklung
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Psycholinguistik
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Sprache
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Spracherwerb
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Sprachtheorie
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Kognitionswissenschaft
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Sprachursprung
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Taal.
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Denken.
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Begrip.
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Cognition et langage.
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Psycholinguistique.
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17.30 psycholinguistics: general.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97010427 |
| ISBN |
0585138494 |
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9780585138497 |
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9780198523772 |
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0198523777 |
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9780191689017 |
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0191689017 |
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