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Book: A history of psycholinguistics

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patrickwilken
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24 January 2014 at 12:02pm | IP Logged 
For those of you with a bit of money, and an interest in psycholinguistics and history, this may be the book for you: A history of psycholinguistics in the pre-Chomskyan era by Willem J.M. Levelt.

From the blog post:

How do we speak and how do we understand language? It is widely believed that the scientific study of these uniquely human abilities was launched during the 1950s with the advent of Noam Chomsky’s generative linguistics. True, modern psycholinguistics received a major impulse from this “cognitive revolution,” but the empirical study of how we speak and listen and how children acquire these amazing skills has its roots in the late 18th century. By the end of the 19th century the psychology of language was an established science and the field was booming up to World War II. Empirical psycholinguistics emerged from four roots.

The Viennese engineer Wolfgang von Kempelen spent 20 years constructing a “speaking machine”. His 1791 book contains a precise construction manual. Copies have been built and indeed, the machine can articulate complex utterances such as Leopoldus secundus...


The full blog post written by the author can be found here: http://blog.oup.com/2013/03/history-psycholinguistics-pre-ch omskyan-era/.

I personally find it a little worrying that I am starting to find the idea of time traveling over two centuries of psycholinguist studies strangely appealing. ;)


Edited by patrickwilken on 24 January 2014 at 12:09pm



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