Language and Speech

GEORGE A. MILLER — one of the founders of cognitive psychology, whose 1956 paper on the magical number seven is among the most cited in the field — on how speech is produced, perceived and learned. Copyright 1981, W. H. Freeman; ISBN 0-7167-1297-0, paperback 0-7167-1298-9. A heavily illustrated book: the credits list Albert E. Miller, Carol Donner, Adolf E. Brotman, Dana Burns, Laszlo Kubinyi and Alan D. Iselin. Its acknowledgements draw on ALVIN LIBERMAN and the Haskins Laboratories work on the speech code, CLAUDE SHANNON on prediction and entropy in printed English, and ROGER BROWN\u2019s A First Language.