Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon

Jean Aitchison

ISBN 10: 0631144420 / ISBN 13: 9780631144427

Editore: Basil Blackwell, 1987

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0631144420I5N00

Riassunto:

This volume about words, and the extraordinary human capacity to store and retrieve them. We hold effortlessly at least 50,000 of them in our minds, the majority of which can be summoned in a split second. No computer has yet come anywhere near simulating the complexities of the internal word-store. This book provides an up-to-date introduction to man's prodigious "mental lexicon". Using evidence from "slips of the tongue", the word-finding problems of aphasics, psycholinguistic experiments and the research of theoretical linguists, it describes: how man deals with this fluctuating mass of words; how people use fluid prototypes rather than fixed definitions for coping with meaning; how we extend old words and create new ones. The book compares the verbal resources of adults and children, and assesses recent competing theories as to how we seek out the lexical items we need. It is designed both for students embarking on psycholinguistics courses, and for anyone who has ever puzzled about the human word-store.

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Titolo: Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the ...
Casa editrice: Basil Blackwell
Data di pubblicazione: 1987
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Fair
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket