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Format: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 380 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-108-26580-4 , 1-108-27126-X , 1-108-26496-4

Content: In a work that is part memoir, part monograph, Nigel Duffield offers a set of lyrical reflections on theories of Psycholinguistics, which is concerned with how speakers use the languages they control, as well as with how such control is acquired in the first place. Written for professionals and enthusiastic amateurs alike, this book offers a 'well-tempered' examination of the conceptual and empirical foundations of the field. In developing his ideas, the author draws on thirty years of direct professional experience of psycholinguistic theory and practice, across various sub-disciplines, including theoretical linguistics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and philology. The author's personal experience as a language learner - more importantly, as the father of three bilingual children - also plays a crucial role in shaping the discussion. Using examples from popular literature, song, poetry, and comedy, the work examines many of the foundational questions that divide researchers from different intellectual traditions: these include the nature of 'linguistic competence', the arbitrariness of language, and the theoretical implications of variation between speakers and across languages.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018). , Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I Both Sides, Now -- 1 Breaking us in two -- Cracks in the canvas -- A(n) historical overview: dividing the soul of psycholinguistic theory -- Notes -- 2 Marr's Vision I -- No representation without process, no process without representation -- From Chomsky to Marr ..... -- The Joys of Arithmetick -- 'Two numbers of like kind' -- From times tables to grammatical productivity -- A little more arithmetic -- Interim summary -- Notes -- 3 Marr's Vision II -- Levels of explanation: Chomsky -- Levels of explanation: Marr -- Learning to fly -- ..... and back to Chomsky -- Notes -- Part II Six Different Ways -- 4 (Case #1) 'Starry, starry night': The problem of phoneme discrimination -- Note -- 5 (Case #2) 'There's a word for it': Are words more than labels? -- Notes -- 6 (Case #3) 'Running up that hill': Mapping events to syntax -- Notes -- 7 (Case #4) 'Me, myself, I': Representing and processing co-reference -- Notes -- 8 (Case #5) 'Be my number two' ... won't you?: The problem of partial generalisations -- ??What rarely do you find there? -- How come you don't say why/Why don't you say how come? -- Why worry? -- *Why to go -- Summary -- Notes -- 9 (Case #6) 'Cwucial questions': Investigating extraction -- Notes -- Conclusion to Part II -- Part III Say it ain't so, Joe -- 10 A is for Abstraction (and Ambiguity) -- Filtered content: the myth of message extraction -- Ambiguity resolution: the myth of the unambiguous message -- Notes -- 11 B is for Arbitrariness: (Saussurean arbitrariness) -- Notes -- 12 C is for Competence~Performance, and Proficiency -- Notes -- 13 F is for Functions of Language -- Notes -- 14 G is for Grammar -- Notes -- 15 H is for Homogeneity -- (i) Theoretical homogeneity. , (ii) 'Morr tung': empirical homogeneity -- (iii) Methodological homogeneity -- Notes -- 16 I is for Internalism (I-language) -- The curse of strict mentalism -- The case for langue -- (i) Fragments and threads -- (ii) Verjess Babylon: the source of grammatical variation -- (iii) The Ugly Duckling, and the stork -- (iv) Grammatical change: 'The less we know, the clearer the picture' -- (v) Lazarus, resurrect -- (vi) Afterthought -- Notes -- 17 J is for Judgment -- Notes -- 18 N is for (Chomskyan) Nativism -- Notes -- 19 O is for Object of Study -- (i) Language as a biological organ -- (ii) The mind as a computer -- (iii) Foxes and hedgehogs ..... windmills too -- (iv) 'An immense invitation' -- 20 P is for Poverty of the Stimulus (good arguments) -- 21 R is for (Exophoric) Reference -- Note -- 22 T is for Sentence -- 'Beyond the pale': the hegemony of the sentence -- Notes -- 23 v is for von Humboldt (discrete infinity) -- 'The infinite employment of finite means' -- 'Or shall I don a blue?': utterances vs. sentences -- Recursion: what is it good for, anyway? -- A dungeon deep: non-syntactic factors affecting word-order -- Afterthought: Snowflake's journeys (2prn + 10 cm) -- Notes -- 24 Ω is for Love -- Notes -- Conclusion to Part III: 'The last thing .....' -- Notes -- Part IV A Tale of Two Cities -- 25 'I ain't bovvered': Lauren's French -- Note -- 26 'Who did say that?': Adrian's English -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments, credits and permissions -- References -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-108-41715-9

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-108-40464-2

Language: English

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