A History of Psycholinguistics The Pre-Chomskyan Era

by Levelt, Willem

• ISBN13: 9780198712213
• ISBN10: 0198712219
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-04-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Willem Levelt, Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands

Willem Levelt is director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, which he founded in 1980. He is also emeritus honorary professor of psycholinguistics at Nijmegen University. He has a PhD in psychology from Leiden University (1965), was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, full professor of psychology at Groningen University, member at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1971-1972), professor of experimental psychology at Nijmegen University and, since 1980, scientific member of the Max Planck Society. He has published widely in psychophysics, mathematical psychology and psycholinguistics. His books include On binocular rivalry (1965), Formal grammars in linguistics and psycholinguistics (3 Vols, 1974, republished in 2008) and Speaking: From intention to articulation (1989).

Table of Contents

Orientation
1. 1951
Establishing the Discipline: 1770-1900
2. Inventing a Psychology of Language
3. From Bumps to Diagrams: Tracing Language in the Brain
4. Language Acquisition and the Diary Explosion
5. Language in the Laboratory and Modeling Microgenesis
6. Willem Wundt's Grand Synthesis
Twentieth-Century Psycholinguistics Before the 'Cognitive Revolution'
7. New Perspectives: Structuralism and the Psychology of Imageless Thought
8. Verbal Behaviour
9. Speech Acts and Functions
10. Language Acquisition: Wealth of data, dearth of theory
11. Language in the Brain: The lures of holism
12. Empirical Studies of Speech and Language Usage
13. A New Cross-Linguistic Perspective and Linguistic Relativity
14. Psychology of Language During the Third Reich
Psycholinguistics Re-Established
15. Psycholinguistics Post-War, Pre-Chomsky