Language

Language is learnt, used and understood; on this subject researchers from many disciplines have begun to collaborate.

Psychologists, linguists, neurologists, philosophers and computer theorists are making a fertile contribution in this fast-expanding field.

Language presents Readings on recent research dealing with the child’s acquisition of language, the impairment of language by pathological disorders, the acoustics of speech, semantic problems and psycholinguistics. Work by leading researchers – including Roger Brown, E.H. Lenneberg, A.R. Luria and George Miller – is represented, reflecting many aspects of the latest advances in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying language.