PSYCHOLINGUISTICS.

Introduction

Psycholinguistics: what happens in our mind when we use language.

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