BDB 301-302 Dilbilim Temel Kavramları I (Introduction to Linguistics)

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BDB 301-302 Dilbilim Temel Kavramları I

(Introduction to Linguistics)

Dr. Mustafa Güleç

Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi (DTCF)

Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü,

Hollanda Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı

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Psycholinguistics?

• Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language.

• Initial forays into psycholinguistics were largely philosophical ventures, due mainly to a lack of cohesive data on how the human brain functioned.

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What does psycholinguistics study?

• Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language.

• Psycholinguistics is interdisciplinary in nature and is studied by people in a variety of fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, and linguistics.

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What are the branches of psycholinguistics?

• Psycholinguistics is one of the significant branches of Linguistics.

• It is also a branch of Cognitive science.

• It initially works on three stages: - language acquisition, language production and comprehension. The process of Psycholinguistic emphasizes upon the effect of prior knowledge on comprehension.

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What is the importance of psycholinguistics?

• Listening, reading, speaking and writing are called as the four of language skills.

• Specifically, psycholinguistics helps to understand the difficulties of these four skills both intrinsic difficulties and extrinsic difficulties.

• Psycholinguistics also helps to explain the errors students do in the language learning.

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Who is the father of psycholinguistics?

• Noam Chomsky is known as the father of modern linguistics. Back in 1957, Chomsky, with his revolutionary book “Syntactic Structures,”

laid the foundation of his non-empiricist theory of language.

• Two years later, with his review of B. F. Skinner’s “Verbal Behavior,”

he argued that Behaviorism, the dominant approach to language at the time, was no longer to be the way of studying language.

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Who is the father of psycholinguistics?

• Chomsky made the study of language scientific. He demonstrated that despite the observable variety of the world’s languages, there is likely only one inventory of linguistic features. All languages — dead, still used, or even future ones — are combinations of these elements.

• After Chomsky, linguistics is defined as 'the scientific study of language'— 'language' in the singular.

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What is Chomsky’s theory?

• As Chomsky’s work continued, he posed a novel approach to thinking about language, called the theory of Universal Grammar.

• This intricate theory includes the idea that humans are genetically endowed with knowledge of the linguistic features of which language is composed and the ability to determine how those features are organized into the language(s) they hear around them.

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What is psycholinguistic its branches and scopes?

• Psycholinguistics is a branch of study which combines the disciplines of psychology and linguistics.

• It is concerned with the relationship between the human mind and the language as it examines the processes that occur in brain while producing and perceiving both written and spoken discourse.

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References:

• Scovel, Thomas, 1998, Psycholinguistics, Oxford University Press.

• Cairns, Helen Smith, 1999, Psycholinguistics, Pro-Ed.

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