Language and Cognition: Essays in Honor of Arthur J. Bronstein

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Springer Science & Business Media, Jan 1, 1984 - Science - 285 pages
We are pleased to be able to honor Arthur J. Bronstein with this volume of essays. We are all the more pleased because the volume has consider able intrinsic merit, but neither the reader nor Arthur should have any doubts about our primary purpose in assembling this book. That the col lection is intrinsically valuable is, in itself, a tribute to the man whom it honors: The contributing authors are all colleagues, students, and friends of Arthur. Readers who are acquainted with Arthur will not be surprised by the broad range of academic expertise which has been brought to bear on the subject of language in this book. They will recognize that Arthur's own range of expertise and interest is only barely matched by the contents of the essays and the backgrounds of their authors. On the other hand, those who know little about Arthur may have thought of him primarily in narrow association with phonetics and lin guistics, most likely as the author of The Pronunciation of American English, surely the most influential of American phonetics texts during the last quarter of a century. Although such an association is in many respects appropriate, it is altogether too limited, but this will not deter us from using it as the basis for a relevant and, we hope, revealing metaphor about Arthur J.
 

Contents

Notes on Borrowing Pit
1
The Metaterm Cause Exploring a Definition in Newari and English
11
Assessing the Perception of Speech A Change of Direction
29
The Pronunciation Judgment Test 19391978 An Approach to American Pronunciation
35
Surprise
45
Stuttering as an Expression of Inefficient Language Development
59
Transformations MeaningPreserving or TextDestroying?
73
A Method for Eliciting Verbal Graffiti
79
A Note on Replies
125
The Phoneme One of Lifes Little Uncertainties
129
Recipe for Relevance Latin and Its Literature
151
The Speech of New York City The Historical Background
159
Language and Psychoanalysis
169
Continuities and Discontinuities in Language Development over the First Two Years
195
On the Counterverbality of Nonverbal as a Verbal Term
203
Why Do Children Talk?
241

Quo Vadunt Studia Classica?
83
On Consonants and Syllable Boundaries
89
The Continuing Education of the Professional
97
Some Data on Second Language Acquisition and Retention by Older Children
101
Generative Generative Phonology
107
The Role of Formant Transitions in the Perception of Stress in Disyllables
249
Aspects of Deixis in the Language of Children with Autism and Related Childhood Psychoses
257
Jonathan Bouchers Farewell Sermon
269
Index
283
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