Linguistics

• Linguistics - morphology

  study of words & word formation
• linguistics - syntax

  study of word order
• linguistics - phonology

  study of how words sound & used in a language

  perceived
• linguistics - phonetics

  • study of speech sounds & production
• linguistics - semantics

  study of meaning
• linguistics - pragmatics

  stidy of language use
• linguistics

  • Deals with human language competence
  • What we know about the language that allows us to speak & understand
  • Implicit knowledge – knowing what is right
  • Explicit knowledge – formal rules
• Modern Psycholinguistics

  examination of psychological processes that underlie our language abilities
• Modern Psycholinguistics - linguistic performance

  • what we do - how knowledge used
  • how & why -
  • Learn a language, Make errors, Accommodate accents + individual difference (pitch difference, speaking speeds...), Acquire multiple languages, Ambiguity
• Modern Psycholinguistics - Noam Chomsky

  • challenged Skinner's behavioural approach
  • cognitive revolution - shift towards understanding mental processes
  • modularity (mind consists of specialized cognitive modules)
  • language nativism (idea humans have innate capacity for language acquisition)