TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berent,Iris
TI  - The Phonological Mind
SN  - 9781139049610 (ebook)
AV  - P217.3 .B47 2013
U1  - 414 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Phonetics
KW  - Cognitive grammar
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Humans instinctively form words by weaving patterns of meaningless speech elements. Moreover, we do so in specific, regular ways. We contrast dogs and gods, favour blogs to lbogs. We begin forming sound-patterns at birth and, like songbirds, we do so spontaneously, even in the absence of an adult model. We even impose these phonological patterns on invented cultural technologies such as reading and writing. But why are humans compelled to generate phonological patterns? And why do different phonological systems - signed and spoken - share aspects of their design? Drawing on findings from a broad range of disciplines including linguistics, experimental psychology, neuroscience and comparative animal studies, Iris Berent explores these questions and proposes a new hypothesis about the architecture of the phonological mind
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139049610
ER  -