PS366 Study Guide - Second-Language Acquisition, Lexical Functional Grammar, Psycholinguistics
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Language is our most important communication tool. As we grow language comes to serve other functions as well: identifies generations, binds groups and excludes non-peers, gender differences. There are 9 main languages in the world and as many as 6900 dialects of these languages. Mandarin, english, spanish, hindi, russian, arabic, bengali, portuguese, Psycholinguistics is the psychology of language the and the psychological factors that influence language use. Psycholinguistics is related to all other departments of psychology. Studying language can be broken down in 3 categories: language acquisition, language production, language comprehension. Most of the knowledge we use for language is tacit". Cognitive processes" refers to perception, memory, and thinking. Ordinary use of language" includes reading a book, writing a letter, participating in a conversation. Aphasia is a good example of the separation between cognitive and knowledge processing of language. States that a sentence consists of a chain of associations between words in the sentence.
