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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Orientation -- 1.1951 -- The Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in Psychology and Linguistics and its follow-up -- Cornell 1951 -- Indiana 1953 -- George Miller's Language and communication -- Karl Lashley's The problem of serial order in behavior -- Other 1951 milestones -- pt. 2 Establishing the discipline: 1770-1900 -- 2.Inventing a psychology of language -- The origins of language -- From the Enlightenment to Romanticism -- Historical and comparative philology -- The root barrier and beyond -- Darwinian evolution and language origins -- Heymann Steinthal -- Psychology -- Language genesis -- Disorders of language and speech -- Steinthal's invention -- Retrospect -- 3.From bumps to diagrams: Tracing language in the brain -- The physiognomic beginnings -- Against localization -- Phrenology without bumps -- The left hemisphere and Broca's area -- Trousseau seeds confusion -- Carl Wernicke and the diagram makers -- Baginsky -- Wernicke 1874 -- |
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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 -- |
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Contents note continued: Charles-Michel de l'Epee and Joseph-Marie Degirando -- The demise of Deaf sign language -- Retrospect -- 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 -- James McKeen Cattell -- Joseph Jastrow and Gustav Aschaffenburg -- Albert Thumb and Karl Marbe -- Speech errors -- Rudolf Meringer and Carl Mayer -- Heath Bawden -- Retrospect -- 6.Wilhelm Wundt's grand synthesis -- A productive life -- Wundt's psychology -- Experimental and ethnic psychology -- Association and apperception -- Voluntarism -- |
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Contents 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 -- |
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Contents 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 -- Retrospect -- 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 -- |
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Contents note continued: Charles Osgood's theory and measurement of meaning -- Hobart Mowrer: the sentence as conditioning device -- Retrospect -- 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 -- |
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Contents 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 -- |
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Contents 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 -- Localization -- Epilogue -- Roman Jakobson -- Theodore Weisenburg and Katherine McBride: aphasia is diverse -- |
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Contents 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 -- Retrospect -- 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 -- Speech errors -- 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 -- |
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Contents 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 -- Retrospect -- 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 -- |
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Contents 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 -- David and Rosa Katz -- Max Isserlin -- Otto Selz -- 1933-1938: some further developments -- The Austrian Anschlu B -- The fate of the Buhlers -- Frieda Eisler -- Emil Froschels -- Roman Jakobson -- Nikolaj Trubetskoy -- German neurologists in war time -- Friedrich Kainz -- Retrospect -- pt. 4 Psycholinguistics re-established -- |
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Contents 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [579]-621) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780199653669 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0199653666 (hardback) |
