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psycholinguistics, the study of psychological states and mental activity associated with the use of language. An important focus of psycholinguistics is the largely unconscious application of grammatical rules that enable people to produce and comprehend intelligible sentences. Psycholinguists investigate the relationship between language and thought, a perennial subject of debate being whether language is a function of thinking or thought a function of the use of language. However, most problems in psycholinguistics are more concrete, involving the study of linguistic performance and language acquisition language acquisition, the process of learning a native or a second language. The acquisition of native languages is studied primarily by developmental psychologists and psycholinguists. ..... Click the link for more information. , especially in children. The work of Noam Chomsky Chomsky, Noam (nōm chŏm`skē), 1928–, educator and linguist, b. Philadelphia. ..... Click the link for more information. and other proponents of transformational grammar have had a marked influence on the field. Neurolinguists study the brain activity involved in language use, obtaining much of their data from people whose ability to use language has been impaired due to brain damage. BibliographySee D. Foss and D. Hakes, Psycholinguistics (1978); V. C. Tartter, Language Processes (1986); A. Radford, Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax (1990). psycholinguisticsStudy of the mental processes involved in the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. Much psycholinguistic work has been devoted to the learning of language by children and on speech processing and comprehension by both children and adults. Traditional areas of research include language production, language comprehension, language acquisition, language disorders, language and thought, and neurocognition. See also linguistics. |
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Levinson of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, offers a different view. Clemente and Collison (2000) argued for counselor preparation programs that include courses on psycholinguistics and multiculturalism, cooperative teamwork between counselors and English as a Second Language teachers, and interventions that are sensitive to students' cultures and developmental levels. Alternative approaches to analyzing individual differences in the rate of early vocabulary development, Applied Psycholinguistics, 2002, 23(3):313-315. |
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