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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS - Coggle Diagram
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
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The content–process controversy: Most psycholinguists now agree that human beings are innately programmed to speak. But they cannot agree on exactly what is innate.
they cannot decide to what extent (if any) language ability is separate from other cognitive abilities.
Children who could not possibly be acquainted go through similar stages in their development, and also make similar mistakes.
There are those who consider that this uniformity of speech development indicates that children innately contain a blueprint for language: this view represents a so-called content approach
There are those who support a process approach, and argue that children could not possibly contain specific language universals.
The rule-governed nature of child language: Children are not simply imitating what they hear going on around them as if they were parrots
Every child at every stage possesses a grammar with rules of its own even though the system will be simpler than that of an adult
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Speech production
There are selection errors, cases in which a speaker has picked out the wrong item
Selection errors usually involve lexical items, so they can tell us which words are closely associated in the mind.
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There are assemblage errors, cases in which a correct choice has been made, but the utterance has been wrongly assembled
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Speech is organized in accordance with a rhythmic principle – that a tone group is divided into smaller units
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Understanding syntax
. Reader jump to conclusions on the basis of outline clues by imposing what they expect to hear onto the stream of sounds.
The problem arose because when interpreting sentences, people tend to impose a subject–verb–object sequence on them.
Recognizing words
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Understanding language is an active,
not a passive process
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Definition: The mind cannot be directly observed, so psycholinguists have to devise ways of finding out how it works.
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