8.1485, Books: Language, Mind and Understanding

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1485. Wed Oct 15 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1485, Books: Language, Mind and Understanding

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New from Oxford University Press:

The Ascent of Babel: An exploration of language, mind, and understanding.
By Gerry T.M. Altmann

CONTENTS:
1:	Looking towards Babel
	  Introducing the mysteries of psycholinguistics
2:	Babies, birth, and language
	  What babies learn about language, even before they are born
3:	Chinchillas do it too
	  Learning to discriminate between different sounds
4:	Words, and what we learn to do with them
	  Learning about words, and how to combine them
5:	Organizing the dictionary
	  Phonemes, syllables, and other ways of looking up words
6:	Words, and how we (eventually) find them
	 Accessing the mental representations of words
7:	Time flies like an arrow
	  Understanding sentences I:  coping with ambiguity
8:	Who did what, and to whom?
	  Understanding sentences II:  identifying who is being talked about,
	what they are doing, and who they are doing it to
9:	On the meaning of meaning
	  The concepts associated with 'understanding' and 'meaning'
10:	Exercising the vocal organs
	  How we produce words and sentences
11:	The written word
	  Writing systems, reading, eye movements, and Socrates
12:	When it all goes wrong
	  Disorders of language
13:	Wiring-up a brain
	  Artificial neural networks and language learning
14:	The descent from Babel
	  Not all languages were created equal
Bibliography
Index

Further details are available at the following URLs:

For a detailed list of contents:
http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1/Babel/outline.html

For OUP (UK) blurb:
http://www1.oup.co.uk/scripts/readcat?title=The+Ascent+of+Babel

For OUP (USA) blurb: http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0198523785.html

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Dr. Gerry T.M. Altmann             g.altmann at psych.york.ac.uk
Department of Psychology
University of York                 Tel: +44 (0)1904 434362
Heslington, York Y01 5DD. UK.      Fax: +44 (0)1904 433181
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Homepage:         http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1
New book: http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1/Babel/outline.html
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