Psycholinguistics

 

What is Psycholinguistics?

Is the study of the cognitive processes that support the acquisition and use of language.

Mention the focus of investigation of this field?

The focus of the most psycholinguistics has been on the first language (L1), in studies of acqusition in children and research on adult comprehension and production.

Models developed by psycholinguistis attempt to describe and predict linguistic behavior. Explain Levelt's Speaking model.

He used the term “blue print” that is the structure of the system as it really works in the brain.

Aims at describing the process of language production from the development of communicative intentions to the articulation of the sounds.

 It means that your intentions are shown by the sound you are giving into a conversation

For this complex process of language a number of sub-components are proposed:

 

}The first component is the “conceptualizer”, this is the level of our thinking.

}The second component is the “formulator”, isolated words and meanings, are turned into sentences.

}The third component “the articulator”, sentences translated into sounds.

}This means that first we select words, or lexical items, which is divided in lemma and lexeme, of the basis of the meanings we want to express. Then sentence formation, which leads to the spoken expression.

 

There is no perfect match between lemmas and lexemes, "heft-lemisphere" is a good example of it. Write at least 3 more.

Speech errors, aphasia, trip-of- the-tongue, and varios experimental paradigms such as word/picture naming.

Aphasia: condition where the language centres of the brain have been physically damaged through illness or accident.

 trip-of- the-tongue: state, a person is trying to remember a word but cannot quite recall the complet word form.

What is the difference between code switching and keeping language apart?

For me code switching, is a unconscious  process when a bilingual is saying something in one language and then the switch to another because is easier or is more confortable for him or her to say it that in a different language.

And keeping language apart is conscious , is when i bilingual, for example in a english class a student who  his mother tongue is spanish, he is consius that he need to speak just in english and he keep the spanish apart.

Explain the sub-set hypothesis.

Bilingual speaker have stores for lemmas, lexemes, syntatic rules, morpho-phonological rules and elements and articulatory elements that are not fundamentally different from those of monolingual speakers. There are probably relations between sub sets in different stores, that is lemmas forming a sub-set in given language will be related to both lexemes and syntactical rules from the same language, and phonologycal rules from that language will be connected with articulatory elements accordingly.