Psycholinguistics examines the interrelation between linguistic factors and aspects of mind and brain, focusing on the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms that enable language to be learned, comprehended and produced. It concerns the cognitive faculties and processes necessary for constructing grammatical language and for a listener to perceive it, and modern research in the field integrates biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics and information science to study how the mind and brain process language, with subdisciplines including neurolinguistics and developmental psycholinguistics, which addresses how children acquire language ability.
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Central QuestionPsycholinguistics asks what psychological and neurobiological mechanisms let humans learn, comprehend and produce language, and what cognitive processes are needed to build and perceive its grammatical structures. 1 Key DebateThe field is divided between an innatist position, following Noam Chomsky's 1959 critique of B.F. Skinner, that humans possess an innate language faculty or access to a universal grammar, and an empiricist or behaviorist position that all language is learned as a conditioned response, with recent emergentist approaches challenging the innate position as scientifically unfalsifiable. 1 Connections
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1. Psycholinguistics
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Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and other aspects of mind and brain.
Central Theoretical Debate section, Chomsky 1959 critique of Skinner
humans possess a special, innate ability for language
Wikipedia: Semantic satiation
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Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
Transposed letter effect, Wikipedia
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In psychology, the transposed letter effect is a phenomenon in which letters within a word are switched.
Wason verbal illusion (Wikipedia)
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The Wason verbal illusion is a cognitive illusion in psycholinguistics where certain grammatically complex sentences are misinterpreted to mean the opposite of their literal meaning.
Hypocognition (Wikipedia)
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Hypocognition, in cognitive linguistics, means missing and being unable to communicate cognitive and linguistic representations because there are no words for particular concepts.
Bouba/kiki effect, Wikipedia
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The bouba-kiki effect ( BOO-bÉ™ KEE-kee), or takete-maluma phenomenon, is a non-arbitrary mental association between certain speech sounds and certain visual shapes.
Phonemic restoration effect - Wikipedia
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Phonemic restoration effect is a perceptual phenomenon where under certain conditions, sounds actually missing from a speech signal can be restored by the brain and may appear to be heard.
Wikipedia: Priming (psychology)
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Priming is a concept in psychology and psycholinguistics to describe how exposure to one stimulus may influence a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention.
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Priming is a concept in psychology and psycholinguistics to describe how exposure to one stimulus may influence a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention.
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