Jean Aitchison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 182371 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jean Aitchison |
| NOMBRES | Jean |
| APELLIDO | Aitchison |
| FIRMA | AITCHISON J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Language Change
How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential t…
The Articulate Mammal
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author. ‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics...highly recommended.’ The Washington Post 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 a complex and controversial subject: What is language and is it restricted to humans? How do children …
The Articulate Mammal
Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, this text tackles basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics, such as whether language is restricted to humans, whether there is biological evidence for innate language activity, how children learn language, and how we understand, plan and produce language. The author investigates these issues with regard to animal communication, child language and the language of adults, and provides re…
Mémoire et mémorisation dans l’apprentissage des langues
L’auteur présente les différentes étapes de l’acquisition du langage et se demande si le processus relève d’un phénomène de ‘magie naturelle’ ou représente plutôt un travail long et laborieux. Il conclut qu’il est à la fois une magie naturelle et un gros effort. Il est important d’avoir conscience de l’évolution normale en fonction de l’âge pour pouvoir aider les apprenants de seconde langue. Et le rôle des assistant(e)s maternel(le)s qui s’occup…
Recent developments in language origin
In the last ten years, researchers have accepted that language is the outcome of normal evolutionary processes. This has led to a flurry of new work, resulting in some important steps forward in our understanding of language origin. This paper outlines the highlights. The location of proto-humans has been confirmed as Africa, and African hominids are more widely scattered than was previously assumed. Some probably moved out of Africa earlier than…
Motives for Language Change
This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book, originally pub…
Language & Linguistics
Misunderstandings about language
Car Murder Hubby Caged – and other murderous headlines
A study of how newspapers catch their readers’ eyes
An introduction to cognitive linguistics
The Articulate Mammal
The Architecture of the Language Faculty
Questions, goals, assumptions - universal grammar, necessities and assumptions, syntactocentrism and perfection interfaces, representational modularity - the 'articulatory-perceptual' interfaces, the phonology-syntax interface, the 'conceptual-intentional' interface, embedding mismatches between syntactic structure and conceptual structure, the tripartite parallel architecture, representional modularity more on the syntax-semantics interface - en…
Wörter im Kopf
Human Evolution, Language and Mind
Words in the Mind
Preface. Abbreviations and Symbols. Part I: Aims and Evidence:. 1. Welcome to Dictionopolis!. The human word-store. 2. Links in the Chain. Assessing the evidence. 3. Programming Dumbella. Modelling the mental lexicon. Part II: Basic Ingredients:. 4. Slippery Customers. Attempts to pin down the meaning of words. 5. Bad Birds and Better Birds. Prototype theories. 6. Whispering Chambers of the Imagination. Mental models. 7. The Primordial Atomic Glo…
John McShane
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Michael Garman, Psycholinguistics. Cambridge
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Referential Practice
Referential Practice is an anthropological study of language use in a contemporary Maya community. It examines the routine conversational practices in which Maya speakers make reference to themselves and to each other, to their immediate contexts, and to their world. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Oxkutzcab, Yucatan, William F. Hanks develops a sociocultural approach to reference in natural languages. The core of this approach lies in treating…
Linguistics
Spaghetti junctions and recurrent routes
Language Socialization Across Cultures
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
The Gobbledygook Syndrome
Gobbledygook, jargon, bureaucratese and legalese – people rail against them all. Can anything be said objectively about these ‘symptoms’ of a ‘diseased’ and ‘degenerate’ English? Is there, indeed a case for surgery
Butler English
Butler English is the conventional name for a reduced and simplified variety of Indian English which has been characterized as a "minimal pidgin." This paper analyzes in detail the speech of 7 speakers (aged between 17 and 65) with a view to finding out, first, the salient features of this variety of English, second, the relationship between 19th and 20th century Butler English, and third, the source of the shared features. The texts revealed a d…
Word order universals
Words in the Mind
Preface. Abbreviations and Symbols. Part I: Aims and Evidence:. 1. Welcome to Dictionopolis!. The human word-store. 2. Links in the Chain. Assessing the evidence. 3. Programming Dumbella. Modelling the mental lexicon. Part II: Basic Ingredients:. 4. Slippery Customers. Attempts to pin down the meaning of words. 5. Bad Birds and Better Birds. Prototype theories. 6. Whispering Chambers of the Imagination. Mental models. 7. The Primordial Atomic Glo…
An introduction to cognitive linguistics
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Natural Phonology or Natural Memory? the Interaction Between Phonological Processes and Recall Mechanisms
An analysis of the attempts by 90 children between the ages of four and nine to learn a number of new words revealed that their recall errors were remarkably similar to the phonological deformations found in the speech of young children in the early stages of language development. Two complementary explanations are put forward to account for the observed similarities: phonological processes noted in the speech of young children may reflect recall…
Lexical storage and retrieval
The Articulate Mammal
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author. ‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics...highly recommended.’ The Washington Post 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 a complex and controversial subject: What is language and is it restricted to humans? How do children …
The Articulate Mammal
The Architecture of the Language Faculty
Questions, goals, assumptions - universal grammar, necessities and assumptions, syntactocentrism and perfection interfaces, representational modularity - the 'articulatory-perceptual' interfaces, the phonology-syntax interface, the 'conceptual-intentional' interface, embedding mismatches between syntactic structure and conceptual structure, the tripartite parallel architecture, representional modularity more on the syntax-semantics interface - en…
Spaghetti junctions and recurrent routes
New Guinea and Neighboring Areas
Unhappiness about not unhappy people
Most linguists agree that there is a mismatch between the notions of grammaticality and acceptability. A widely held view is that there are several types of sentence which are technically well-formed, and consequently grammatical, but which are unacceptable to the ‘typical’ speaker. A more recent, and less widely held view is that the reverse situation is also possible: there exists a class of sentences which are ungrammatical, yet acceptable. In…
Some idiosyncratic strategies utilized by a chronic Broca’s aphasic
Unhappiness about not unhappy people
Most linguists agree that there is a mismatch between the notions of grammaticality and acceptability. A widely held view is that there are several types of sentence which are technically well-formed, and consequently grammatical, but which are unacceptable to the ‘typical’ speaker. A more recent, and less widely held view is that the reverse situation is also possible: there exists a class of sentences which are ungrammatical, yet acceptable. In…
Learning Language the Hard Way
This paper analyses and discusses the speech of Vincent, a hearing child of deaf parents who acquired sign language as his first language. When exposed to spoken language, his progress was slow and abnormal. He utilised a number of grammatical devices which may have come from sign language, such as reduplication, copying around, doubling, and afterthought. These were imposed on a fixed kernel sentence which attributed more importance to form than…
Psycholinguistics
New Guinea and Neighboring Areas
Natural Phonology or Natural Memory? the Interaction Between Phonological Processes and Recall Mechanisms
An analysis of the attempts by 90 children between the ages of four and nine to learn a number of new words revealed that their recall errors were remarkably similar to the phonological deformations found in the speech of young children in the early stages of language development. Two complementary explanations are put forward to account for the observed similarities: phonological processes noted in the speech of young children may reflect recall…
Lexical storage and retrieval
Language Change
On roots of language
Cognitive clouds and semantic shadows
The Gobbledygook Syndrome
Gobbledygook, jargon, bureaucratese and legalese – people rail against them all. Can anything be said objectively about these ‘symptoms’ of a ‘diseased’ and ‘degenerate’ English? Is there, indeed a case for surgery
Butler English
Butler English is the conventional name for a reduced and simplified variety of Indian English which has been characterized as a "minimal pidgin." This paper analyzes in detail the speech of 7 speakers (aged between 17 and 65) with a view to finding out, first, the salient features of this variety of English, second, the relationship between 19th and 20th century Butler English, and third, the source of the shared features. The texts revealed a d…
Word order universals
Diachronica
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Linguistics
Spaghetti junctions and recurrent routes
Language Socialization Across Cultures
John McShane
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Michael Garman, Psycholinguistics. Cambridge
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Referential Practice
Referential Practice is an anthropological study of language use in a contemporary Maya community. It examines the routine conversational practices in which Maya speakers make reference to themselves and to each other, to their immediate contexts, and to their world. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Oxkutzcab, Yucatan, William F. Hanks develops a sociocultural approach to reference in natural languages. The core of this approach lies in treating…
Words in the Mind
Preface. Abbreviations and Symbols. Part I: Aims and Evidence:. 1. Welcome to Dictionopolis!. The human word-store. 2. Links in the Chain. Assessing the evidence. 3. Programming Dumbella. Modelling the mental lexicon. Part II: Basic Ingredients:. 4. Slippery Customers. Attempts to pin down the meaning of words. 5. Bad Birds and Better Birds. Prototype theories. 6. Whispering Chambers of the Imagination. Mental models. 7. The Primordial Atomic Glo…
Wörter im Kopf
Human Evolution, Language and Mind
The Architecture of the Language Faculty
Questions, goals, assumptions - universal grammar, necessities and assumptions, syntactocentrism and perfection interfaces, representational modularity - the 'articulatory-perceptual' interfaces, the phonology-syntax interface, the 'conceptual-intentional' interface, embedding mismatches between syntactic structure and conceptual structure, the tripartite parallel architecture, representional modularity more on the syntax-semantics interface - en…
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