Psycholinguistics 2: Structures and Processes (original) (raw)

The need to study Psycholinguistics

In this paper, I have tried to study the relation between Psychology and Linguistics by analysing their inter-relation and looking at the various significant fields and studies that have emerged because of and that come under Psycholinguistics.

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Psycholinguistics, 2020

Devoted to the link between language and the brain.

Poor communication in psycholinguistics: Review of four new textbooks

J Psycholinguist Res, 1978

Introduction to Psycholinguistics by L Taylor. Three general issues about psycholinguistics are considered in detail: (1) Psycholinguists should attempt to provide psychological tests of competing linguistic theories. (2) More attention should be given by psycholinguists to the work done in the field of human information processing. (3) There is evidence for the Whorfian hypothesis, even in its strong version, at the phonetic level of language. It is concluded that improvement is needed in the communication between psycholinguistics and related disciplines and among the subdivisions of psycholinguistics.

EXPLORING PSYCHOLINGUISTICS: BASICS FOR BEGINNERS

PALarch, 2021

This study aims at exploring the concept of psycholinguistics. It focuses on the core concepts used in the scope of the field, which is important to a beginner to fully appreciate. It gives an overview of psychology and linguistics in a nutshell, investigating the concept of multidisciplinary nature of psycholinguistics, mind, brain, language and learning from three perspectives: behaviorism, mentalism and interactionism. This study adopted qualitative methodology as paradigm and close reading as strategy. Moreover, the sources were purposively selected. It finds out answers to the questions: "What is mind?" and "What is language?" Moreover, it also comes up with a set of recommendations.

Report on Doctoral Seminars in Psycholinguistics

The field of Psycholinguistics is receiving a considerable amount of attention due to its applicability in Applied Linguistics, as it is relates to the language learning process. In order to be able to able to determine how language is acquired and produced, it is necessary to understand the origins of language and those factors that play an important part in its development. Bearing in mind the above, this present work seeks to report on issues addressed in the curricular unit DCL 006 - Psycholinguistics I, one of the courses offered in the PhD Programme in Language Sciences/Language Didactics of the University of Porto, Portugal. A brief discussion ensues on important themes, materials and information presented during the course seminars, with a view to shedding light on the necessity of psycholinguistic study for language development, acquisition and production. Keywords: psycholinguistics, language, language development, language acquisition, language production, speech.