Psychology of Language and Thought: Essays on the Theory and History of Psycholinguistics

I · An Overview.- 1 Theoretical and Historical Roots of Psycholinguistic Research.- II · Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Contributions.- 2 Cordemoy and "Cartesian Linguistics".- 3 Condillac's Epistemolinguistic Question.- 4 The Perceptible and the Imperceptible: Diderot's Speculation on Language in his Letters on the Deaf and Blind.- III · Nineteenth Century Contributions.- 5 James Rush and the Theory of Voice and Mind.- 6 William Thornton and the Practical Applications of New Writing Systems.- 7 Jean Itard: A Memoir on Stuttering.- IV · Twentieth Century Contributions.- 8 Hermann Paul's View of the Nature of Language.- 9 Noam Chomsky and Cartesian Linguistics.- 10 Edward Wheeler Scripture, Phonetician.- 11 An Historical Perspective on "Linguistic Relativity".