PSYC 3290 Chapter Notes -Sociolinguistics, Garden Path Sentence, Empiricism
4 Feb 2013
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Main points: psycholinguistics is the study of how individuals comprehend, produce, and acquire language, the study of psycholinguistics is part of the field of cognitive science. Few things play as central a role in our everyday lives as language. The psychology of language deals with the mental processes that are involved in language use. 3 sets of processes are of primary interest: Language comprehension (how we perceive and understand speech and written language) Language production (how we construct an utterance from idea to completed sentence) The psychological study of language is called psycholinguistics. The scope of psycholinguistics: cognitive science is an interdisciplinary venture that draws upon the insights of psychologists, linguistics, computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers to study the mind and mental processes. Includes topics such as problem solving, memory, imagery, and language. Linguistics is the branch of science that studies the origin, structure, and use of language: language processes and linguistic knowledge.
