PSYCHOLINGUISTICS.
What is psycholinguistics?
Psychological processing of language
Part of cognitive science
Input from neuroscience, informatics and linguistics
Why is this interesting/important?
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
John Donne, Meditation XVII
Practical Reasons psycholinguistics
Education: Teach or learn a language
Engineering: Create machines that can process
language the way humans do
Other Reasons?
DIFINITION
The study of the mental faculties involved in the perception ,and acquisition of language.
The study of the relationships between linguistic behavior and psychological processes, including the process of language acquisition.
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS.
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire ,use, and understand language.
The three primary processes
investigated in psycholinguistics.
Language comprehension.
Language production.
Language acquisition.
LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION.
Understanding what other people say and write is more complicated than it might at first appear.
Comprehending language involves a variety of capacities, skills, processes, knowledge, and disposition that are used to derive meaning from spoken, written and sign language.
LANGUAGE PRODUCTION.
Language production is the production of spoken or written language.it describe all of the stages between having a concept into linguistic form.
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Language acquisition is just one strand of psycholinguistics which is all about how people learn to speak and the mental processes involved.
Psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive
science.
Psychology.
Neuroscience.
Computer science.
Anthropology.
Linguistics.
Cognitive Science and its Components
Psychometrics
Experimental psychology
psycholinguistics
Computational linguistics
Artificial intelligence
Epistemology
Logic
Anthropology
Decision theory
Psychology
Linguistics
Computer science
Philosophy
Neuroscience
Other fields
Cognitive
Science
Current Directions
Psycholinguistics is increasingly viewed as aportion of the interdisciplinary field ofcognitive science.
Shift of the interest in syntax to otheraspects of language: discourse, lexicon.
Conclusion
Psycholinguistics is an area of study which draws from linguistics and psychology and focuses upon the comprehension and production of language.
Final facts
6,912 known living languages in the world
896,190 words in English (correct as of yesterday)
Mandarin has 1,075,000,000 speakers
Most popular word is ‘ok’
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy”
Goethe