Machine generated contents note: part 1 Orientation -- 1.1951 -- The Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in Psychology and Linguistics and its follow-up -- Cornell 1951 -- Indiana 1953 -- George Miller's Language and communication -- Karl Lashley's The problem of serial order in behavior -- Other 1951 milestones -- part 2 Establishing the discipline: 1770-1900 -- 2. Inventing a psychology of language -- The origins of language -- From the Enlightenment to Romanticism -- Historical and comparative philology -- The root barrier and beyond -- Darwinian evolution and language origins -- Heymann Steinthal -- Psychology -- Language genesis -- Disorders of language and speech -- Steinthal's invention -- Retrospect -- 3. From bumps to diagrams: Tracing language in the brain -- The physiognomic beginnings -- Against localization -- Phrenology without bumps -- The left hemisphere and Broca's area -- Trousseau seeds confusion -- Carl Wernicke and the diagram makers -- Baginsky -- Wernicke 1874
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How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? This book provides a personal history of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies cooperations, and rivalries created the discipline we call psycholinguistics