1.Psycholinguistics is the study of psychological aspects of language; it
usually studies the psychological states and mental activity associated with the use of language. As an interdisciplinary academic field basied on psychology and linguistics, psycholinguistics investigates the six following subjects: language acquisition, language comprehension, language production, language disorders,language and thought, and cognitive architecture of language, the most important research subjects are acquisition, comprehension and production.
nguage acquisition is one of the central topics in psycholinguistics.
Acquiring a first language is something every child does successfully, in a matter of a few years and without the need for formal lessons.
Four phrases are identified and acknowledged in the process of language acquisition: holophrastic stage, two-word stage, three-word utterances, and, fluent grammatical conversation stage.
3.holophrastic stage is the first phase of language acquisition. The main
linguistic accomplishments during this stage are control of the speech musculature and sensitivity to the phonetic distinctions used in the parent s’ language. Shortly before their first birthday, babies begin to unstand words, and around that birthday, they start to produce them.
4.two-word stage is the second phase of language acquisition. Around
18 months, the child begins to learn words at the rate of one every
two walking hours, and keeps learning that rate or faster through adolescence.
5.Three-word utterances stage is the third phase of language acquisition.
Three-word utterances look like samples drawn from longer potential sentences expressing a complete and more complated idea.
6.connectionism: With respection to the respect to language
comprehension, connectionism in psycholinguistics claims that readers use the same system of links between spelling units and sound units to generate the pronunciations of written words and to access the pronunciations of familiar words, or words that are exceptions to these patterns. In this view, similarity and frequency play important roles in processing and comprehending language, with the novel iterms being processed based on their similarity to known ones.
7.Cohort model is a supposed doctrine dealing with the spoken word
recognition postulation postulated by Marslen-Wilson and Welsh in 1990. It is suggested that the first few phonemes of a spoken word activate a set or cohort of word candidates that are consistent with the input. These candidates compete with one another for activation. As more acoustic input is analyzed, candidates that are no longer consistent with the input drop out of the set. This process continues until only one word candidate is a clear winner.
8.Interactive model holds that in recognizing the spoken words higher
