语言学Chapter VI Language Processing in Mind-S

1、Chapter VI Language Processing in MindIntroduction Why study language? LANGUAGE is a mirror of the mind in a deep and significant sense. It is a product of human intelligence, created anew in each individual by operations that lie far beyond the reach of will or consciousness. (Chomsky, Reflections

2、on Language, 1975) Psycholinguistics is the study of “language and mind” is PSYCHOLINGUISTICS “proper” can perhaps be glossed as the storage, comprehension, production and acquisition of language in any medium (spoken or written). PSYCHOLINGUISTICS is concerned primarily with investigating the psych

3、ological reality of linguistic structures. Less modestly, it sometimes also produces findings, which make their own mark on linguistic research, leading to the modification of theoretical ideas. PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAG deals with more general topics such as the extent to which language shapes thought,

4、 and from the PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION, which includes non-verbal communication such as gestures and facial expressions. A possible divide within psycholinguistics is of those who style themselves COGNITIVE PSYCHOLINGUISTS as opposed to EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTS. The former are concerned above

5、 all with making inferences about the content of the human mind, whereas the latter are somewhat more concerned with empirical matters, such as speed of response to a particular word. In practice the two schools of thought often overlap, but extreme supporters of each way of thinking sometimes perce

6、ive the gap as being a large one.Major strands of psycholinguistic research: (3): comprehension, production and acquisition language.Section one: Language ComprehensionQ1: What is language comprehension?Q2: What is mind?Q3: How do you understand language?Lexical ambiguitySyntactic processingSemantic

7、 and sentence memoryWord recognition;Basic process in reading Section Two Discourse Interpretation Q1. What is schemata and reference drawing?Q2. What is text interpretation?2Section Three Language Production Q1. What is Language production?Q2. What are the means of Language production?2mins. Homework:Here are some more examples of garden path sentences. Can you figure out what the structure of these sentences is?1. The boat floated downstream sank.2. While Mary was