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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Introduction

Psycholinguistics Introduction

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PSYCHOLINGUISTICSIntroductionA view to Psycholinguistics1. What is Psycholinguistics?

2. What are the branches?2.1. What are their goals?

3. What are you going to do in these sessions?

1. What is Psycholinguistics?

It studies the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Communicative competence that allows students to operate efficiently in the new language.Using the language to communicate is the best way to learn.Meaningful communication became the target to reach and the medium to do so.Nothing is set in stone.

3LINGUISTICS PhoneticsPhonology

Morphology Syntax

SemanticsPragmatics

Natural adaptation to contemporary trends.

4COMBINATIONSSOCIOLINGUISTICSPosition and use of language in societyDialect variation

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICSHistorical developmentHistorIcal cultural influences

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICSSpeech processingMachine translation

WHAT ARE THE BRANCHES OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS?Language acquistion:

How does a child learn to speak?How does a child acquire its mother tongue?

Language processing:

What happens in the human mind when we speak or listen?

Neurolinguistics:

How is languagerepresented in the human brain?LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONAcquisition studies:How can we study young children?

Strategies:What strategies children apply when they learn a mother tongue?

Phases:How and how long does LA take place?

LANGUAGE PROCESSINGSpeech production:What is going on from thought to output?

Comprehenssion:How do we interpret the input string?How do we identify lingustic units within it? NUEROLINGUISTICSUse of speech is based on two biological foundations:CNS & Vocal TractThe function of language in the human brain.Brain CentersLanguage disorders

Therefore

PSYCHOLINGUISTICSNatural adaptation to contemporary trends.

10What are you going to do in these sessions?Read a chapter and write a summary on the topic the group assigns you to read.Share your summary with the group and the class.Collaborate with your group to design a PPT presentation.Take part in an oral presentation. Collaborate with the group to create a part of a questionnaire.

Natural adaptation to contemporary trends.

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HANDS ONSs use language SL / FL to learn new info and to evaluate it based on knowledge of own culture and their own emerging cultural literacy in the 2nd or foreign culture.

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