The Articulate Mammal (63 page)

transpositions (slips of the tongue)
221
,
222
,
223
,
225

Travis (child)
148

Treffert, D.A.
133

Trueswell, J.C.
244

Tsimpli, I.-M.
133
,
243

Turkish
95
,
108
,
128
,
145

turn-taking
21
,
22
–
3

two-word stage
61
,
68
,
72
–
4
,
79
,
104
–
10
,
112
,
129

Tyler, L.K.
188

Tzotzil
237

understanding
see
comprehension of language

Ungerer, F.
239

Universal Grammar (UG)
93
–
7
,
128

universals
86
–
91
,
126
–
8
,
129

usage of language vs. knowledge
xvi
–
xvii
,
167
–
8
,
169
–
70
,
174
,
177
–
9
,
183
,
237
–
8

usage-based approach (to language)
99

Van Petten, C.K.
52

Varga-Khadem, F.
78

veiled controlled process
190

Verb Island hypothesis
148

verbal complexity hypothesis
191

verbs
vii
,
118
–
20
,
237
; auxiliary
141
; brain activity
52
; comprehension of speech
190
–
2
,
211
,
236
; linguistic processing
139
; as maypoles
147
–
8
; past tenses
113
; planning of speech
228
; subtle distinctions between
148
–
9
; to + verb
146
–
7

versatile verbs
190
–
2

vervet monkey
18
–
19
,
22
,
25

Victor of Aveyron
84

Vihman, M.M.
71
,
242

Viki (chimp)
29

vocabulary, children’s
72
,
77
,
79
–
80
,
85
;
see also
lexicon vocal cords
21
,
42
,
61
,
69

vocal-auditory channel
21

von Frisch, K.
23
,
25

von Humboldt, W.
138

Vygotsky, L.S.
101

Wada, J.
44
–
5

Wallman, J.
241

Wanner, E.
110

Washburn, D.A.
241

Washoe (chimp)
29
–
32
,
108
,
241

Wason, P.C.
210

Wasow, T.
15

Watt, W.C.
174
,
177
,
178
,
244

WEAVER model
232

Weir, R.H.
67
–
8
,
71

well-formedness
168
,
183

Wells, G.
103
,
135
,
137

Wernicke’s area
50
–
1
,
52

Wetherell, M.
201
–
2

WH-questions
75
,
126

White, L.
149

Wilde, Oscar
233

Williams, E.
129

Williams syndrome
56
–
7

Wilson, B.
126

Wodehouse, P.G.
22
–
3
‘word blindness’ (dyslexia)
57

word class
229

word endings: child language
108
–
9
,
113
–
14
,
116
,
117
; operating principles
141
–
3
;
planning of speech
230
; practice
66
–
7

word identification
187
–
90

word inflections
66
,
68
,
74

word order: ape communication
30
–
1
; backward processing
208
–
9
; child language
108
–
9
; in child language
143
,
145
; Emperor of Jupiter example
156
–
7

word patterns
see
syntax

word selection
225
–
7
,
228

word-finding difficulties
216
–
17

Wordsworth, William
56

working memory
238

‘wug’ experiment
112
–
13

Wundt, W.
vi

Yamada, J.L.
131
,
243

Yngve, V.
209

Zangwill, O.L.
47

Zock, M.
238

Table of Contents

Cover

Halftitle

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Fifth Edition

Introduction

1 The Great Automatic Grammatizator

2 Animals that Try to Talk

3 Grandmama’s Teeth

4 Predestinate Grooves

5 A Blueprint in the Brain?

6 Chattering Children

7 Puzzling it Out

8 Celestial Unintelligibility

9 The White Elephant Problem

10 The Case of the Missing Fingerprint

11 The Cheshire Cat’s Grin

12 Banker’s Clerk or Hippopotamus?

Suggestions for Further Reading

References

Index