Words in the Mind

Aitchison’s second book in this collection, on how words are stored and retrieved in the mind. Copyright 1987, first published 1987, REPRINTED 1988 — this copy. ISBN 0-631-14441-2 hardback, 0-631-14442-0 paperback; typeset in Ehrhardt by Joshua Associates, Oxford, printed by T.J. Press at Padstow. The cover cartoon — a passenger misreading “left” for “right” and driving off a cliff — is the mental lexicon’s retrieval problem in two frames.