The Meanings

and Scope of
Psycholinguistics
 Group 1:

Larasati Nur Faizah Dewi Aisyah

1. 19202241081 2. 19202241082

Shafira Marchelli F Khoirunnisa Ramadhani

3. 19202241083
4. 19202244014
 Table of contents

The Definition of
1 Psycholinguistics

2 The Scope of
Psycholinguistics
The Definition of
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguist
Someone who studies phenomena in
the intersection of linguistics and
psychology.
 Psycholinguistics

Linguistics Psychology
The scientific study of language The scientific study of human behavior
and cognition
 Psycholinguistics

1. 2. 3.
How is it that people are How children come to How and why it is
able to produce and have this ability? sometimes impaired
understand language? after brain damage?
Linguistics Definition from Experts

Langaker, 1973
“It is the study of language acquisition and linguistics
behavior, as well as the psychological mechanism

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responsible for them.”

Osgood and Sebeok, 1983

“It deals directly with the processes of encoding and
decoding as they relates states of message to states of
communicators.”

Diebold, 1973
“It is concerned in the broadest sense with relation between
messages and the characteristics of the human individuals
who select and interpret them.”
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics is the study of how individuals comprehend, produce, and
acquire language.
 Views on Psycholinguistics

● Psycholinguistics deals with language and mind.

● Psycholinguistic discusses processes which are going on in the
speaker and listener minds.
● Psycholinguistics investigates language, language use, and
language change.
● Psycholinguistics focuses in the discussion of language acquisition
and linguistics behaviour
 Sub-Disciplines within
Psycholinguistics
1. Theoretical psycholinguistics.
It focused on theories of language relating to human mental processes in language.

2. Developmental psycholinguistics.
It is related to language acquisition.

3. Social psycholinguistics
It is related to the social aspects of language, including social identity.
4. Educational psycholinguistics
Discussed general aspects of formal education at school

5. Neuro-psycholinguistics
Focused on the relationship between language, language production, and the human brain.

6. Experimental psycholinguistics
Covered and experimented in all language productions and language activities, language
behavior, and language outcome.

7. Applied psycholinguistics
Concerned with the application of the findings of six sub-disciplines of psycholinguistics
explained before
 Psycholinguistics Involves:

• Language processing

• Lexical storage and retrieval

• Language acquisition

• Special circumstances

• The brain and language

• Second language acquisition and use

 The Scope of
Psycholinguistics
Overview
Psycholinguistics:
● is a part of the emerging field of study called
cognitive science
● is concerned with the relationship between the
human mind and the language
● is interested in the ways of storing lexical items and
syntactic rules in mind
● is also interested in the processes of memory
involved in perception and interpretation of texts
Generally, Psycholinguistics, covers three main points
(Clark & Clark, 1977; Tanenhaus, 1989):

Language comprehension: How people understand

spoken and written language

a. Imitation

b. Conditioning

c. Social cognition
Speech production: How people produce language

“Speech production is the process by which spoken words are

selected to be produced, have their phonetics formulated and
then finally are articulated by the motor system in the vocal
apparatus.”

Language Acquisition: How people learn language

“Language acquisition is the process by which humans

acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend
language.”
To conclude,
the scope of psycholinguistics involves:
1.
How language is acquired
and produced by users

2.
How brain works on language

3.
Comprehension, speech production
and acquisition processes.
Thank
You!
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