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Wimbledon High School.
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Jean Aitchison
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In 1987, she identified three stages that occur during a child"s acquisition of vocabulary: labelling, packaging and network building. Labelling: First stage and involves making the link between the sounds of particular words and the objects to which they refer, e.g., understanding that “mummy” refers to the child’s mother. Packaging: Entails understanding a word’s range of meaning.
Network Building: Involves grasping the connections between words: understanding that some words are opposite in meaning.
East.g., understanding the relationship between hypernyms and hyponyms. Her main areas of interest include:
Socio-historical linguistics
Language and mind
Language and the media
Her main published books include:
New Media Language (edited with Diana M Lewis).
London and New York: Routledge. Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon.
3rd edition (1st edition 1987).
Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 2003. Language Change: Progress or Decay? 3rd edition (1st edition 1981). Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics.
4th edition (1st edition 1976). London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
The language Web: The Power and Problem of Words. 1996 British Broadcasting Corporation Reith lectures.
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Also, with new extended introduction, in Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom Canto series, 2000).
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