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New media language
(edited with Diana M. Lewis)
London and New York.: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 0-415-28303-5 (hbk) 0-415-28304-3 (pbk).

Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon
3rd edition. Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 2003. ISBN: 0- 631-23243-5 (hbk) 0-631-23244-3 (pbk).
TRANSLATIONS: Korean (Taegu: Kyungpook National University Press, 1993); German (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1997).
PREVIOUS EDITIONS: 1st edition 1987, 2nd edition 1994.

Language change: Progress or Decay?
3rd edition. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-79155-3 (hbk), 0-521-79535-4 (pbk).
TRANSLATIONS: Japanese (Tokyo: Liber Press, 1994); Spanish (Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1993); Chinese (in prep.).
PREVIOUS EDITIONS: 1st edition 1981, 2nd edition 1991.

The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
4th edition. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. ISBN 0-415- 16866-X (hbk), 0415-167914 (pbk).
ENGLISH REPRINT (4th edn.) with added notes: (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press & Routledge, China, 2000).
TRANSLATIONS: Italian (Rome: Armando Armando, 1980); German (Tübingen: T.B.L. Verlag Gunter Narr, 1981); Japanese (Tokyo: Shisaku Sha, 1985); Spanish (Alianza Editorial, 1994); Belorussian: Gavarkiya Istoti (Minsk: Belaruski Fond Sorasa. Vidavyestva `Klich', 1995); Persian (mimeo); Polish (Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, in press).
PREVIOUS EDITIONS: 1st edition 1976, 2nd edition 1983, 3rd edition 1989.

The language web: The power and problem of words
1996 BBC Reith lectures. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0-521-573858 (hbk) 0-521- 574757 (pbk).
TRANSLATION: Japanese (Tokyo: Liber Press, 1997).

The seeds of speech: Language origin and evolution
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-521-46246-0 (hbk) 0-521-46793-4 (pbk). Also, with new extended introduction, in C.U.P. Canto series, 2000.)
ENGLISH REPRINT with added notes: (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, China, & Cambridge University Press, 2000).
TRANSLATIONS: Dutch (Utrecht: Het Spectrum, 1997); Japanese (Tokyo: Tuttle-Mori, 1999).

Language joyriding
An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 16 November 1993. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. ISBN: 0-19-952264-2.

Linguistics
5th edition. London: Hodder Headline, Teach Yourself Books, 1999. ISBN: 0-340-73733-6. Retitled and reprinted with corrections as: Linguistics: An Introduction. 2nd edition. London: Hodder Headline, 1999. ISBN: 0-340-75792-2).
TRANSLATIONS: Japanese (Tokyo: Kinseido, 1981); Portuguese (Publicações Europa-América 1993); translation rights bought for Indonesian (Bandung: Penerbit Binacipta). English reprint with added Japanese notes by Sado Ando (Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 1995).
PREVIOUS EDITIONS: 1st edition, under the title General Linguistics, 1972, 2nd edition 1978, 3rd edition 1987, 4th edition 1992.

Introducing language and mind
Harmondsworth, Middx.: Penguin, 1992. ISBN: 0-140-81010-X. (New edition under discussion.)

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