Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics

1. Is the science, which is responsable for the study of how language is acquired, produced, understood and lost born from the studies of the French linguist Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960)

   • The area of ​​study of psycholinguistics are:
     • Language processing
       • It is the way in which human use symbols to communicate ideas and feelings, which is processed and understood by the brain.
         • 1. Understanding language 2. Information retrieval 3. Extraction of information 4. Search for answers 5. Generation of speech 6. Automatic translation 7. Reconstruction of speech 8. Speech Recognition 9. Voice synthesis
     • Language storage and acess
       • As the vocabulary is stored and processed in our mind, and as we remember the rules of grammar to speak it
     • Comprehension theory
       • Occurs when we hear a linguistic expression or read a sentence and understand it.
     • Language in exceptional circumstances
       • Language imparmients
         • dyslexia
         • sttutering
     • Language and brain
       • What happens when we listen and speak, as our brain acquires, uses and understands the language.
   • Uses the cognitive processes from the use of the lexicon and the necessary structures specific grammatical of each language; It is an interdisciplinary discipline that uses resources from Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Speech-Language Pathology and Computational Sciences to study the use and understanding of language.
     • Phonetics and Phonology
       • Study of speech sounds and their spelling, symbolic expression in writing, and how the brain elaborates and processes speech sounds
     • Morphology
       • The study of the structure of the word, and how the brain elaborates and interprets words
     • Syntax
       • How the brain elaborates and interprets sentences based on its grammatical structure
     • Pragmatics
       • Is the study of how the context affects the use and interpretation of language, how the brain processes information and evokes the available knowledge to elaborate a linguistic use or to interpret it.
     • Semantics
       • Is the study of how words and sentences acquire meaning and express and how the brain links linguistic expressions