PSYC 3290 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Second-Language Acquisition, Language Attrition, Stroop Effect
12 Jun 2019
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Psycholinguistics: the study of how language knowledge is represented in the human mind, how this knowledge is accessed when we understand or produce speech. Part of cognitive science: study of mind and mental processes. Implicit and explicit knowledge: lots of linguistic knowledge is: implicit (tacit, an individual can use it, but cannot explain what he/she knows. Major areas of psycholinguistics: speech comprehension, speech production, language in the brain (neurolinguistics) Levels of processing: phonetic & phonological: sounds, morphological: morphemes (meaningful pieces of words, lexical: words, syntactic: sentence structure, semantic: meaning. Related areas: first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language attrition, speech and language pathology. Applied psycholinguistics: reading education, second language teaching, speech and language pathology (clinical use, computer speech recognition and generation. Behavioural methods: online tasks: real time, model real-world speech perception or production, reaction time is usually measured, require use of a computer, example: stroop task.
