INTRODUCTION

TO LINGUISTIC
 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

- the study of the psychological and

neurobiological factors that enable
humans to acquire, use and
understand language.
 THE THREE PRIMARY
PROCESSES INVESTIGATED
IN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
 LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

- Is an important aspect of day to day functioning in adulthood.

- Involves a variety of capacities, skills, processes, knowledge
and dispositions that are used to derive meanings from
spoken, written and signed language.
 LANGUAGE PRODUCTION

- Is the production of spoken or written language.

- It describes all of the stages between having a
concept, and translating that concept into linguistic
form
 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

- Is the process by which humans acquire the capacity

to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to
produce and use words and sentences to
communicate.
(WILHELM WUNDT
1832-1920)
• Two aspects of language

- outer phenomena (production)

- inner phenomena (comprehension)

• Language begins with an idea/purpose you want to

transmit.
B.F SKINNER (1957)
•Stimulus response
•All utterances have been learned from
others and their reinforcement
•Applies for humans and non humans
species
NOAM CHOMSKY (1957-1965)
• Critique of Skinner (1959)

- Sentences are not linear strings of words

• We cannot account for creativity of language

- Poverty of stimulus argument

• Grammar independent of meaning

“Color less green ideas sleep furiously.”

• Language is not learned by imitation and reinforcement

• Strong nativist belief

GROUP 1

JOHN MATTHEW MIRANDA

GRACIELLA GATUS
FAITHLYN JOY MACAPAGAL
DANICA SALAS
GIGI GUION
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