A history of psycholinguistics : the pre-Chomskyan era

How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? This book provides a personal history of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies cooperations, and rivalries created the discipline we call psycholinguistics.
Content: 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
Abstract: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? This book provides a fascinating personal history of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created the discipline we call psycholinguistics.