Psycholinguistics

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Psychology

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Psycholinguistics

A subfield of cognitive science focusing on language comprehension, development, production, and reading.

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Language processing

Involves perceptual processing, word recognition, parsing, semantic interpretation, mental models, and pragmatic interpretation.

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Word superiority effect

Context is crucial for identifying letters efficiently.

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Universal grammar

Chomsky's theory proposing an innate potential for language learning with specific grammar rules.

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Deep and surface structure

Shows the independence of meaning and grammar in language.

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Language comprehension

Involves moment-by-moment decoding, word recognition, parsing, and inference for understanding.

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Mental lexicon

Contains information about spelling, pronunciation, grammar, and semantics for word recognition.

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Parsing

Assigning sentence elements to grammatical classes, which can be challenging without clear clause markers.

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Behaviorist critique

Criticism of Skinner's theory of language development.

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Linguistic relativity

Hypothesis suggesting that language structures thought, evident in differences between languages like Hopi and Eskimo.

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