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Psycholinguistics : language, mind, and world created by Danny D Steinberg

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: . 28 | (Longman linguistics library)Publication details: London Longman Group Limited 1992Description: 240 pages illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0582291127
  • 0582291135 (pbk)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Chapter1 Fundamental language abilities of speakers, 2 - Chomsky's syntactic based grammar, 3 - Semantic based grammar, 4 - Grammar, speaker performance, and psychological reality, 5 - Empiricism, rationalism, and behaviorism, 6 - Language and thought, 7 - Sentence production and understanding, 8 - Child language acquisition, 9 - Second language acquisition and teaching, 10 - Reading principles and teaching
Summary: The book focuses on a consideration of how people use and acquire language. Danny Steinberg introduces and evaluates ideas from a variety of disciplines, particularly linguistics, philosophy and psychology . He uses a mentalistic approach to integrate these ideas into a unified language theory, and he includes experimental research where it can throw light on the issues discussed.No prior knowledge of the relevant disciplines is required, and one of the strengths of Dr Steinberg's book is the fluency with which he makes unfamiliar and sometimes complex concepts accessible and interesting to the reader.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Chapter1 Fundamental language abilities of speakers, 2 - Chomsky's syntactic based grammar, 3 - Semantic based grammar, 4 - Grammar, speaker performance, and psychological reality, 5 - Empiricism, rationalism, and behaviorism, 6 - Language and thought, 7 - Sentence production and understanding, 8 - Child language acquisition, 9 - Second language acquisition and teaching, 10 - Reading principles and teaching

The book focuses on a consideration of how people use and acquire language. Danny Steinberg introduces and evaluates ideas from a variety of disciplines, particularly linguistics, philosophy and psychology . He uses a mentalistic approach to integrate these ideas into a unified language theory, and he includes experimental research where it can throw light on the issues discussed.No prior knowledge of the relevant disciplines is required, and one of the strengths of Dr Steinberg's book is the fluency with which he makes unfamiliar and sometimes complex concepts accessible and interesting to the reader.

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