Full Description
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.
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
