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PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT Essays on the Theory and History of Psycholinguistics STUDIES IN APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Series Editor: R.W. Rieber John Jay College of Criminal Justice,CUNY and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT Essays on the Theory and History of Psycholinguistics Edited by R.W. Rieber john jay College of Criminal justice, CUNY and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York, New York PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK AND LONDON Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Psychology of language and thought. (Studies in applied psycholinguistics) Includes index. 1. Psycholinguistics-History. I. Rieber, R.W. II. Series. P37.P788 401'.9 79-25969 ISBN 978-1-4684-3646-4 ISBN 978-1-4684-3644-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4684-3644-0 © 1980 Plenum Press, New York Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1980 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 227 West 17th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher CONTRIBUTORS John W. Black • Professor Emeritus, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbia, Ohio Michael J. Clark • Linacre College, Oxford, England Peter Ostwald • Langley Porter Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California W. Keith Percival • Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas R. W. Rieber • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and Co lumbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York Jules Paul Seigel • Department of English, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island James H. Starn· Department of Philosophy and Religion, Upsala Col lege, East Orange, New Jersey JohnJ. Sullivan· New York University, New York, New York; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Karl D. Vitti • Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Harold Vetter· University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Jeffrey Wollock • New College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England v PREFACE The fact that one would contemplate publication of a book such as this indicates both the maturity and the growth of activity that have taken place in the field of psycholinguistics over the past few decades. More over, the fact that psycholinguists and/or scholars of the history of ideas are interested in the history of their subject clearly demonstrates that much has been accomplished, and the time is indeed ripe for the reassess ment of whence we have come. In addition, perhaps this interest in our historical past suggests that psycholinguistics is at a critical stage in its development. There are many scholars who believe that this critical stage manifests itself primarily in a search for a new paradigm. It would seem only reasonable to suggest that when members of a profession are search ing for something new, more than likely they will take time to reflect on the past in the hope that it will facilitate the fulfillment of their quest. This book as such reflects a wide-ranging search for historical roots over a millenium of research in the psychology of language and thought. Furthermore, it also reflects an attempt to open the context by introducing the broader perspectives of the history of ideas and the history of science together with their reassessment of the method of science motivated from within psychology itself. We should like'to thank the publishers for their encouragement and particularly the contributors of this book for their cooperation and pa tience. It is our hope that this book will provide the reader with a fresh perspective in his study of psycholinguistics and will help facilitate an understanding of the transition of language and thought from an earlier formative period to its present stages of maturation and development. R. W. RIEBER New York, N. Y. January, 1980 vii CONTENTS PART I • AN OVERVIEW Chapter 1 Theoretical and Historical Roots of Psycholinguistic Research 3 R. W. Rieber and Harold Vetter PART II • SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CONTRIBUTIONS Chapter 2 Cordemoy and "Cartesian Linguistics" 53 Karl D. Vitti Chapter 3 Condillac's Epistemolinguistic Question 77 James H. Starn Chapter 4 The Perceptible and the Imperceptible: Diderot's Speculation on Language in his Letters on the Deaf and Blind 91 Jules Paul Seigel PART III. NINETEENTH CENTURY CONTRIBUTIONS Chapter 5 James Rush and the Theory of Voice and Mind 105 Peter Ostwald and R. W. Rieber ix x CONTENTS Chapter 6 William Thornton and the Practical Applications of New Writing Systems 121 Jeffrey Wallack Chapter 7 Jean Itard: A Memoir on Stuttering 153 Michael J. Clark PART IV· TWENTIETH CENTURY CONTRIBUTIONS Chapter 8 Hermann Paul's View of the Nature of Language 187 W. Keith Percival Chapter 9 Noam Chomsky and Cartesian Linguistics 197 John J. Sullivan Chapter 10 Edward Wheeler Scripture,Phonetician 225 John W. Black Chapter 11 An Historical Perspective on .. Linguistic Relativity" 239 James H. Starn Index 263 PART I AN OVERVIEW
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