LIN 3713 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism, Verbal Behavior, Noam Chomsky
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The psychology of language deals with the mental processes that are involved in language use. Three sets of processes are of primary interest: language comprehension, language production, and language acquisition. Psycholinguistics is part of a field of study called cognitive science. Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary venture that draws upon the insights of psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers to study the mind and mental processes. Linguistics is the branch of science that studies the origin, structure and use of language. 2 questions are at the heart of psycholinguistics: 2 nd question: what cognitive processes are involved in ordinary language use: these processes include perception, memory, and thinking. Garden path sentences the sentence leads you down a garden path to a predictable destination until it is obvious you are mistaken and must backtrack to reinterpret the sentence. In the course of comprehending language, we are making decisions, we are doing mental work. Indirect requests more polite than direct commands.
