Bridges Between Psychology And Linguistics : A Swarthmore Festschrift For Lila Gleitman

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Written as a tribute to Lila Gleitman, an influential pioneer in first language acquisition and reading studies, this significant book clearly establishes the relationships between psychology and linguistics. It begins with a thorough examination of issues in developmental psychology, continues with questions on perception and cognition, studies the realm of psycholinguistics, and concludes with an exploration of theoretical linguistics.

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  • Year: 1,991

  • City: Hillsdale, N.J

  • Pages: 299

  • Language: English

  • Identifier: 0-8058-0783-7,9780805807837

  • Org File Size: 123,104,356

  • Extension: pdf

  • Tags: Psycholinguistics. Gleitman, Lila R. Psycholinguistique. Taalpsychologie.

  • Toc: Content: The decline of visually guided reaching during infancy / Emily W. Bushnell --Programs for movement sequences / David A. Rosenbaum --Similarity and the structure of categories / Lance J. Rips --Perception of a unified world : the role of discontinuities / Thomas F. Shipley --Infant vocalizations and changes in experience / D.D. Hilke --Mechanisms for listener-adaptation in language production : limiting the role of the "model of the listener" / Gary S. Dell and Paula M. Brown --Linguistics and dyslexia in language acquisition / Margaret B. Rawson --Spatial language and spatial cognition / Ray Jackendoff and Barbara Landau --Farewell to 'thee' / Elizabeth F. Shipley. Linearity as a scope principle for Chinese : the evidence from first language acquisition / Thomas Hun-tak Lee --On interpreting partitives / Ann M. Reed --On the relevance of traditional phonological analysis to the abstract patterns found in ASL and other signed languages / Geoffrey R. Coulter --Phonology as an intelligent system / John Goldsmith --Linguistic theory and the naturalist approach to semantics / Robert May.