psycholinguistics foundations of communication
PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
[1] The scope of Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics is part of the field of cognitive science, and is the study of how individuals comprehend, produce and acquire language. It mainly addresses two questions : What knowledge of language is needed for us to use language ? And what cognitive processes are involved in the ordinary use of language ?
Psycholinguists are also interested in the social rules involved in language use, and the brain mechanisms associated with language.
1.a. Language processes and linguistic knowledge
1.b. Illustrations of language processing
[2] General psychological mechanisms
Both comprehension and production of language are performed within the constraints of our information processing system. The system consists of structural components (memory systems) along with a set of control processes that govern the flow of information within the system.
2.a. The information processing system.
2.b. Central issues in language processing : Serial vs Parallel processing, Top-Down vs
Bottom-Up processing, Automatic vs Controlled processes, Modularity vs
Interactivity.
2.c. Development of the processing system.
[3] Language comprehension
In this part, we will ewamine language comprehension at a number of levels of processing (for the convenience of exposition) : levels of speech processing, Words processing (internal lexicon), syntactic parsing and sentence understanding, connected discourse comprehension.
3.a. Perception of language : identification of isolated speech sounds and of continuous speech. 3.b. The internal lexicon : representation and organization of semantic knowledge
(lexical access processes in comprehension).
3.c. Comprehension of sentences : syntactic and semantic aPsycholinguisticsroaches to the construction of interpretations.
3.d. Discourse comprehension : Comprehension of discourse, Memory for discourse,
Schemata and discourse processing.
Pour Ho Chi Minh 2005– M. Hupet -
[1] The scope of Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics is part of the field of cognitive science, and is the study of how individuals comprehend, produce and acquire language. It mainly addresses two questions : What knowledge of language is needed for us to use language ? And what cognitive processes are involved in the ordinary use of language ?
Psycholinguists are also interested in the social rules involved in language use, and the brain mechanisms associated with language.
1.a. Language processes and linguistic knowledge
1.b. Illustrations of language processing
[2] General psychological mechanisms
Both comprehension and production of language are performed within the constraints of our information processing system. The system consists of structural components (memory systems) along with a set of control processes that govern the flow of information within the system.
2.a. The information processing system.
2.b. Central issues in language processing : Serial vs Parallel processing, Top-Down vs
Bottom-Up processing, Automatic vs Controlled processes, Modularity vs
Interactivity.
2.c. Development of the processing system.
[3] Language comprehension
In this part, we will ewamine language comprehension at a number of levels of processing (for the convenience of exposition) : levels of speech processing, Words processing (internal lexicon), syntactic parsing and sentence understanding, connected discourse comprehension.
3.a. Perception of language : identification of isolated speech sounds and of continuous speech. 3.b. The internal lexicon : representation and organization of semantic knowledge
(lexical access processes in comprehension).
3.c. Comprehension of sentences : syntactic and semantic aPsycholinguisticsroaches to the construction of interpretations.
3.d. Discourse comprehension : Comprehension of discourse, Memory for discourse,
Schemata and discourse processing.
Pour Ho Chi Minh 2005– M. Hupet -