Bridges between psychology and linguistics : a Swarthmore festschrift for Lila Gleitman

Written as a tribute to Lila Gleitman, an influential pioneer in first language acquisition and reading studies, this significant book clearly establishes the relationships between psychology and linguistics. It begins with a thorough examination of issues in developmental psychology, continues with questions on perception and cognition, studies the realm of psycholinguistics, and concludes with an exploration of theoretical linguistics. Content: The decline of visually guided reaching during infancy / Emily W. Bushnell -- Programs for movement sequences / David A. Rosenbaum -- Similarity and the structure of categories / Lance J. Rips -- Perception of a unified world : the role of discontinuities / Thomas F. Shipley -- Infant vocalizations and changes in experience / D.D. Hilke -- Mechanisms for listener-adaptation in language production : limiting the role of the "model of the listener" / Gary S. Dell and Paula M. Brown -- Linguistics and dyslexia in language acquisition / Margaret B. Rawson -- Spatial language and spatial cognition / Ray Jackendoff and Barbara Landau -- Farewell to 'thee' / Elizabeth F. Shipley. Linearity as a scope principle for Chinese : the evidence from first language acquisition / Thomas Hun-tak Lee -- On interpreting partitives / Ann M. Reed -- On the relevance of traditional phonological analysis to the abstract patterns found in ASL and other signed languages / Geoffrey R. Coulter -- Phonology as an intelligent system / John Goldsmith -- Linguistic theory and the naturalist approach to semantics / Robert May. Edited By Donna Jo Napoli, Judy Anne Kegl. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.