language understanding, production and acquisition

Scope Historical
context

c
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
The term psycholinguistics The field of
It studies language was first used 1936 by psycholinguistics also
understanding, It is also concerned Jaco Robert Kantor in An developed from Noam
production and with bilingualism, Objective Psychology of Chomsky´s language
acquisition, and the multilingualism, and Grammar, theory (1965) (Barekat,
but its use became 2011, p. 5). Chomsky
“neurology of all cognitive processes Is “the study of the psychological frequent later, thanks to states that language is an
language functioning" related to language. and neurobiological factors that the 1946 article “Language innate ability in human
(Balamurugan & (De Bot, Kees, 2000, and psycholinguistics: a beings, that all languages
Thirunavukkarasu,
enable humans to acquire, use,
p. 229) review”, by his student have similar rules and that
2018, p. 110). comprehend and produce Nicholas Pronko. we all acquire language in
language” (Balamurugan & (Balamurugan & the same way.
Thirunavukkarasu, 2018, p. 110). Thirunavukkarasu, 2018,
p. 111).

Branches New trends and

research areas

Language acquisition/ Language processing, Neuro imaging of

Second language Language testing Sign language
production and language processing
acquisition comprehension

Lexical storage The brain and Socio-psychological Artificial

factors in language
And many more…
and retrieval. language. intelligence
processing
REFERENCES

Balamuruga, K. & Thirunavukkarasu, S. (2018) Introduction to Psycholinguistics—A Review. Studies in Linguistics and
Literature, 2(18), pp. 110- 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v2n2p110

Barekat. (2011) An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. The University of Guilan. Retrieved from:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED521774.pdf

De Bot, Kees (2000) Psycholinguistics in applied linguistics: Trends and perspectives. Annual Review of Applied
Linguistics, 20, pp. 224–237. DOI: 10.1017/S0267190500200147.

Katz, Yarden (2012, November 1). Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong. An extended
conversation with the legendary linguist. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-
chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/

Cristina Gálvez Martos

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