Publications

Publication details [#18880]

Miller, George A. 1996. The Science of Words. Scientific American Library. 276 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

language sciences | lexicon | word formation

Language as a subject

English, American

ISBN

0-7167-5027-9

Annotation

This book, primarily concerned with the psychological aspects of language knowledge, focuses principally on the lexicon, discussing the phonetic, syntactic and semantic word components and aspects of linguistic science, fixing on the word as a key to language structure.

Reviewed by

Francis, W.N. 1997. Review of $The Science of Words.