LINA02H3 : Chapter 12.docx
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Chapter 12 psycholinguistics : the study of language processing. Psycholinguistics the study of language-processing mechanisms; mental events. 12. 1 methods of psycholinguistic research language users are unaware of the details of language processing subconscious. Ability is maximized to operate with speed and efficiency: saccades: a series of jerks in the movement of the eye while reading text. Move smoothly from left to right. 12. 1. 1 slips of the tongue spoonerisms slips of the tongue produced during speech - [field technique: reverend william a. spooner. What he said: noble tons of soil tendency to exchange the initial consonants of words in the utterance: sentences are planned out before the person begins to say it. Produced: easy enoughly the morpheme, rather than the word, is the fundamental building block of english sentence production: morphological components of words can function independently during sentence planning. Tip of the tongue" phenomena temporarily unable to access a word reveals flexibility to access the mental lexicon.
