Neurolinguistics Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
A discussion of the relationship between the human body and language seems to be the inevitable result of any reflexion by man on his particular condi tion. This has held true since the earliest records in written tradition. It may be an excessively ambi
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APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS THE ACOUSTICS OF CRIME The New Science of Forensic Phonetics Harry HolIien APHASIA AND BRAIN ORGANIZATION Ivar Reinvang APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND MENTAL HEALTH Edited by R. W. Rieber COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Edited by R. W. Rieber NEUROLINGUISTICS Historical and Theoretical Perspectives Charles P. Bouton PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT Essays on the Theory and History of Psycholinguistics Edited by R. W. Rieber
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NEUROLINGUISTICS HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Charles P. Bouton
Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Translated by
Terence MacNamee
PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK AND LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data
Bouton, Charles P. [Neural ingulstique. Engl ish] Neurolinguistics historical and theoretical perspectives / Charles P. Bouton: translated by Terence MacNamee. p. em. (Applied psycholinguistics and communication disorders) Translation of, Neurolinguistique. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9572-4 1. Title. 1. Neurolinguistics. 2. Neurolinguistics--History. II. Series. OP399.B6813 153.6--dc20
1990
ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9572-4
90-7853
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e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9570-0
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PREFACE
A discussion of the relationship between the human body and language seems to be the inevitable result ofany reflexion by man on his particular condition. This has held true since the earliest records in written tradition. It may be an excessively ambitious undertaking to try to catalogue the themes in that reflexion and reconstruct its successive stages within the confines of a book of fairly modest proportions such as this one; but the challenge has been stimulating enough to call for a response. The long research work that preceded the writing of this book and the large collection of source material accumulated over a period of several years at least afford the writer the satisfaction of appreciating more than anyone else the care for accuracy and completeness that went into the gradual reduction of this text to manageable proportions. Moreover, it is hoped to make available to all those interested at a later date the rich and rare corpus of documents that forms the basis of this book, in an anthology of selected readings. It was originally intended to publish these documents in a compani
