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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 5 edition (30 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415420229
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415420228
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 45,111 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics ... highly recommended." – The Washington Post



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In this revised edition, Jean Aitchison has taken account of the considerable changes in Chomsky’s recent ideas. As a result, the chapters on grammatical innateness, child language acquisition and speech comprehension have been largely rewritten.


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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining material, 23 Sep 2004
By Mr. Daniel Miller "Mr DM" (somewhere) - See all my reviews
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Jean Aitcheson has always possessed something of a jocular yet intelligent style, and this book is no exception. Providing a window onto the more complicated aspects of psycholinguistics such as language acquisition, generative grammar and animal communication she manages to present the material in a pleasant and informative work which synthesises the main points in a relevant and detailed manner. I have always admired Aitcheson's proclivity for doing this, and for this book she is to be congratulated.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An antidote to Pinker, 10 Dec 2007
By Geoffrey Cockayne (Wolverhampton, UK) - See all my reviews
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Jean Aitchison is a Reith lecturer and professor of Language at Oxford University. Unsurprisingly therefore this book is both readable and authoritative.

Where Steven Pinker's 'The Language Instinct' is described as 'dazzling' by a reviewer this book is 'engaging' and 'wonderfully informative'. I agree on both counts.

If you want well argued (though well informed) propaganda, read Pinker. If you want a balanced, academically sound (yet readable) account of how all of us come to command the most mind-bogglingly complex communication system ever devised, read this book.
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