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Language, Speech and Mind: Studies in Honour of Victoria A. Fromkin
 
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ISBN13:9781041047308
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No. of pages:372 pages
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Language, Speech and Mind

Studies in Honour of Victoria A. Fromkin
 
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First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin?s 65th birthday in 1988. It reflects her very special interdisciplinary interests and flair.

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First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin?s 65th birthday in 1988. It reflects her very special interdisciplinary interests and flair, thereby celebrating her own important contributions in the areas of phonetics, phonology, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and the philosophy of science.



Review of the first publication:


?? this book represents well the breadth of [ Victoria A. Fromkin?s] interests in language both within and beyond the traditional core areas of linguistics.?


? Frances Ingemann, Language, Vol. 69, No. 1

Table of Contents:

Part One: Phonetic and Phonological Studies  1. Creak as a Sociophonetic Marker  2. On Feature Copying: Parameters of Tone Rules  3. Phonological Features for Places of Articulation  4. Phonetic Universals in Consonant Systems  Part Two: Clinical and Neurolinguistic Studies  5. Abnormal Language Acquisition and Grammar: Evidence for the Modularity of Language  6. Advances in the Neuroanatomical Correlates of Aphasia and the Understanding of the Neural Substrates of Language  7. The Long-term Linguistic Consequences of Head Injury in Childhood: A Review 8. The Neurolinguistic Substrate for Sign Language  9. Functional Levels in Normal, Intensified and Aphasic Speech  10. William Elder (1864?1931): Diagram Maker and Experimentalist  11. The Independence of Language: Evidence from a Retarded Hyperlinguistic Individual  Part Three: Other Psycholinguistic and Linguistic Studies  12. The Perfect Speech Error  13. Free Reading and the Development of Literacy  14. The Scarcity of Speech Errors in Hindi  15. Empiricism and Universal Grammar in Chomsky?s Work  16. Linguistics and Computer Speech Recognition  17. What?s in a name? Inferences from Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomena  18. A Relevance-theoretic Account of Conditionals