Introduction to Psycho-Linguistics

What it Contains:
• Language as a Symbolic System
• Language and Culture, Codifiability, The Whorfian hypothesis
• Language Production and its Relation to Comprehension
• Psycholinguistic question about language production
• Psycholinguistics and Language Teaching
• The psychology of language
• Language acquisition and language learning
• The Contribution of Linguistics
• Chomsky vs. Skinner-the birth of psycholinguistics
• The mental lexicon
• Early psycholinguistic research, Perceptual Strategies, Bever’s strategies, Models of parsing, Kimball’s seven principles, The sausage machine, Parsers in artificial intelligence
• The Concept of Meaning
• Meanings of ‘meaning’, The domain of semantics, Lexical and structural semantics, Pragmatics, Grice’s theory, Presupposition, Speech acts, Knowledge of the world
• Psychological theories of word meaning