Nama : Wayut Vandiki Cahyaka

Kelas : PBI 1 (SMT 7)

Mapel : Psicolinguistic For Language Teacher

1. *Commissives are speech acts that the utterances commit the speaker to some future
course of action, these include promising, threatening, offering, refusal, pledges. For
example when someone says “I'll be back”, represents the speaker's promise that
he/she will be back.*
2. *Psycholinguistics is concerned with the cognitive faculties and processes that are
necessary to produce the grammatical constructions of language. It is also concerned
with the perception of these constructions by a listener.

*Skinner studied how behavior can be reinforced to be repeated or weakened to be

extinguished. He designed the Skinner Box where an animal, often a rodent, would be
given a food pellet or an electric shock. A rat would learn that pressing a level
delivered a food pellet. Or the rat would learn to press the lever in order to halt
electric shocks. *

*Then, the animal may learn to associate a light or sound with being able to get the
reward or halt negative stimuli by pressing the lever. Furthermore, he studied whether
continuous, fixed ratio, fixed interval, variable ratio, and variable interval
reinforcement led to faster response or learning

3. *Lexical ambiguity is the presence of two or more possible meanings for a single word.
It's also called semantic ambiguity or homonymy. Or Lexical ambiguity is sometimes
used deliberately to create puns and other types of wordplay.*