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Originally published in 1979, this book represents an effort to
bring together the two disciplines at the core of
psycholinguistics, psychology and linguistics. It discusses a broad
variety of theoretical approaches to psycholinguistics as well as
covering a wide range of topics. At the time the book had four
goals: to discuss many of the important contemporary issues in
psycholinguistics; to explore the different views on major
theoretical controversies; to provide an analysis of background
literature as a framework in which to evaluate the issues and
controversies; and to describe interesting high-quality research
currently being done by the authors and some of their colleagues.
Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context, with
many of the chapters still relevant in psycholinguistic research
today.
Originally published in 1979, this book represents an effort to
bring together the two disciplines at the core of
psycholinguistics, psychology and linguistics. It discusses a broad
variety of theoretical approaches to psycholinguistics as well as
covering a wide range of topics. At the time the book had four
goals: to discuss many of the important contemporary issues in
psycholinguistics; to explore the different views on major
theoretical controversies; to provide an analysis of background
literature as a framework in which to evaluate the issues and
controversies; and to describe interesting high-quality research
currently being done by the authors and some of their colleagues.
Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context, with
many of the chapters still relevant in psycholinguistic research
today.
This unprecendented volume assembles the writing of several
Asian scholars who present distinctive contributions to psychology
concerning the Asian continent, and the Philippines. Drawing freely
from the Eastern intellectual traditions, this volume is organized
around several themes: the distinctive characteristics of Asian
societies; Asian contributions to psychology; and the need for
relevant psychological research including indigenous modes of human
behavior.
The scope and variety of interest areas identified with psy
cholinguistic research have grown enormously during the last decade
or two. Although this recent flourishing has brought a great deal
of new knowledge and interdisciplinary cooperation to the field, it
has also brought its share of controversy and confusion as con
flicting views on a number of important topics are hotly debated by
their proponents. It is for this reason that we have put together
this book, a collection of interviews with a number of leading
scholars within the field, all of whom differ--sometimes widely- in
their respective points of view. The idea of using a uniform set of
questions as points of de parture for each interview seemed to us a
choice method for pro viding readers with a better understanding
.of the complexities of the field. The questions we have chosen to
work with are crucial questions for psycho linguistics since they
form the framework for knowledge and research within the field. It
is our hope that by offering several different points of view on
psycholinguistic re search, this volume will provide readers with a
better sense of the similarities and differences of opinion within
these different points of view. We would like to extend our thanks
to the various contributors to this book for their cooperation and
patience during the prepara tion of this book, and to the
publishers for their steady encour agement during our work."
The creation of this book stems largely from the current centennial
cele bration of the founding in Leipzig of Wundt's psychological
laboratory. Wundt is acknowledged by many as one of the principal
founders of experimental psychology. His laboratory, his journal,
and his students were all influential in the transmission of the
new psychology from Germany to all parts of the world.
Nevertheless, until recently, psychol ogists and historians of
science hardly recognized the scope and breadth of Wundt's
influence, not to mention his contributions. It was first through
E. B. Titchener, and then through Titchener's student, E. G.
Boring, that psychology got to know the somewhat biased and
distorted picture of this great German psychologist. The picture
painted by Titch ener and Boring was unquestionably the way they
saw him, and the way they wished to use him as a part of the
scientific psychological Zeitgeist of their time."
The essays in this volume have been gathered together to honor Eric
H. Lenneberg. Together they represent the broad range of topics in
which he took some interest. For one of the distinguishing features
of Eric Lenneberg's theoretical work was its synthesizing quality.
He was interested in all of the scientific domains that might touch
on the study of the mind and brain, and he carefully prepared
himself in each of the pertinent disciplines. Beginning with his M.
A. degree in linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1951, he
went on to complete his doctoral studies in both linguistics and
psychology at Harvard in 1955. This was followed by three years of
postdoctoral specialization at Harvard Medical School in both
neurology and chil dren's developmental disorders. This preparation
and additional expe rience at the Children's Hospital Medical
Center in Boston led directly to his now-classic monograph on the
neuropsychology of language, The Biological Foundations of
Language, which was published in 1967. It is interesting to note
that while each of the essays grows out of empirical evidence, all
without exception attempt to attain a level of theoretical
explanation and generalization which is frequently missing from
experimental work per se. Here again Lenneberg's work was no table
for the vigor with which he sought out explanations and theories
from neuropsychological data. In particular, hjs thesis that
"language is the manifestation of species-specific cognitive
propensities" was a hypothesis which he drew from necessarily
indirect evidence."
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