Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics is a subfield of cognitive science devoted to the study of language. 11
It focuses on language comprehension rather than production, and covers topics such as language development, language production (speech), and reading. 4
Language processing involves low-level perceptual processing, word recognition, parsing, semantic interpretation, mental models, and pragmatic interpretation. 4
The word superiority effect shows that context is the best guide for identifying letters. 12
Chomsky's theory of universal grammar challenges the behaviorist view that language is mostly learned or modeled. 12
Universal grammar proposes an innate potential for language learning, with specific grammar rules constraining possible sentences in any particular language. 5
The distinction between deep and surface structure shows how meaning and grammar are independent. 6
Language comprehension involves moment-by-moment decoding, as evidenced by speech shadowing studies and "garden path" sentences. 13
Word recognition uses the mental lexicon, which contains information about spelling, pronunciation, grammar, and semantics. 7
Parsing, or assigning sentence elements to grammatical classes, can be difficult without clear clause markers. 14
Inference is essential for comprehending longer texts. 1
Skinner's behaviorist theory of language development has been criticized. 8
The English language has inconsistent grapheme-phoneme conversion rules, as illustrated by the various pronunciations of "ough." 15
Text comprehension requires context or an interpretative frame to make sense. 16
The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that language structures thought, as seen in differences between languages like Hopi and Eskimo. 2
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Psycholinguistics is a subfield of cognitive science devoted to the study of language. 11
It focuses on language comprehension rather than production, and covers topics such as language development, language production (speech), and reading. 4
Language processing involves low-level perceptual processing, word recognition, parsing, semantic interpretation, mental models, and pragmatic interpretation. 4
The word superiority effect shows that context is the best guide for identifying letters. 12
Chomsky's theory of universal grammar challenges the behaviorist view that language is mostly learned or modeled. 12
Universal grammar proposes an innate potential for language learning, with specific grammar rules constraining possible sentences in any particular language. 5
The distinction between deep and surface structure shows how meaning and grammar are independent. 6
Language comprehension involves moment-by-moment decoding, as evidenced by speech shadowing studies and "garden path" sentences. 13
Word recognition uses the mental lexicon, which contains information about spelling, pronunciation, grammar, and semantics. 7
Parsing, or assigning sentence elements to grammatical classes, can be difficult without clear clause markers. 14
Inference is essential for comprehending longer texts. 1
Skinner's behaviorist theory of language development has been criticized. 8
The English language has inconsistent grapheme-phoneme conversion rules, as illustrated by the various pronunciations of "ough." 15
Text comprehension requires context or an interpretative frame to make sense. 16
The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that language structures thought, as seen in differences between languages like Hopi and Eskimo. 2
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