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Language and Mind, Hadna Indrasti Nurrahma (191214070) - Coggle Diagram
Language and Mind
Psycholinguistics
defined as the study of language
explores what goes on in the human mind as an individual acquires, comprehends, produces and stores language.
Acquiring Language
It used to be thought that animal behaviour
two types
inborn and natural
learned and unnatural
Both nature and nurture are important. Innate potentialities lay down the framework, and within this framework, there is wide variation depending on the environment.
Psycholinguistic Evidence
The mind cannot be directly observed, so psycholinguists have to devise ways of finding out how it works.
get their evidence from two main sources
observation of spontaneous
utterances
psycholinguistic experiments
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.
The Rule-Governed Nature of Child
Language
numerous controversies surrounding child
language, psycholinguists are at least in agreement on one major point.
learning processes
involved are far more complex
Different children use different strategies for acquiring speech
Learning The Meaning of Words
Children have to learn not only the syntax and sounds of their language, but also the meaning of words
takes some time for children to discover that words
can refer to separate things
Recognizing Words
Understanding speech is not the simple matter it appears to be at first sight
Understanding language is an active,
not a passive process
Speech Production
two types
words have to be selected
they have to be integrated into the syntax
Understanding Syntax
A lot of word need to recognition
the process is similar to word recognition, in
that people look for outline clues, and then actively reconstruct the probable message from them. They jump to conclusions on the basis of outline clues by imposing what they expect to hear onto the stream of sounds
Hadna Indrasti Nurrahma
(191214070)