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- ISBN: 9780415610186 | 0415610184
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 4/27/2011
Where does language come from? Is language restricted to humans? How do children acquire language so quickly? Why are Noam Chomsky's theories of language so influential - and is he right?A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid prose Jean Aitchison introduces and demystifies the fundamentals of psycholinguistics: the possibility of a 'language gene'; post-Chomskyan theories of language; language within an evolutionary framework; how children become acclimatized to speech rhythms before birth; the acquisition of verbs; construction and cognitive grammar; and aphasia and dementia.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.