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	title:	The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (4th Edition)
	author:	Jean Aitchison
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Routledge
	released:	June 4, 1998
	isbn:	0415167914
	isbn-13:	9780415167918

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Customer Reviews
An antidote to Pinker - Rated Jean Aitchison is a Reith lecturer and professor of Language at Oxford University. Unsurprisingly therefore this book is both readable and authoritative. Where Steven Pinker's 'The Language Instinct' is described as 'dazzling' by a reviewer this book is 'engaging' and 'wonderfully informative'. I agree on both counts. If you want well argued (though well informed) propaganda, read Pinker. If you want a balanced, academically sound (yet readable) account of how all of us come to command the most mind-bogglingly complex communication system ever devised, read this book. Entertaining material - Rated Jean Aitcheson has always possessed something of a jocular yet intelligent style, and this book is no exception. Providing a window onto the more complicated aspects of psycholinguistics such as language acquisition, generative grammar and animal communication she manages to present the material in a pleasant and informative work which synthesises the main points in a relevant and detailed manner. I have always admired Aitcheson's proclivity for doing this, and for this book she is to be congratulated.

Customer Reviews

An antidote to Pinker - Rated 5/5
Jean Aitchison is a Reith lecturer and professor of Language at Oxford University. Unsurprisingly therefore this book is both readable and authoritative.

Where Steven Pinker's 'The Language Instinct' is described as 'dazzling' by a reviewer this book is 'engaging' and 'wonderfully informative'. I agree on both counts.

If you want well argued (though well informed) propaganda, read Pinker. If you want a balanced, academically sound (yet readable) account of how all of us come to command the most mind-bogglingly complex communication system ever devised, read this book.

Entertaining material - Rated 4/5
Jean Aitcheson has always possessed something of a jocular yet intelligent style, and this book is no exception. Providing a window onto the more complicated aspects of psycholinguistics such as language acquisition, generative grammar and animal communication she manages to present the material in a pleasant and informative work which synthesises the main points in a relevant and detailed manner. I have always admired Aitcheson's proclivity for doing this, and for this book she is to be congratulated.