Brainstorming:
Psycholinguistics : Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the
psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and
understand language.
The study of the relationships between linguistic behaviour and psychological processes,
including the process of language acquisition.
Psycholinguistics is the discipline that investigates and describes the psychological
processes that make it possible for humans to master and use language
Computational psycholinguistics
Theories and models of language acquisition
Behaviourist Theory,Innateness Theory,Social Interactionist Theory and Cognitive Theory.
Usage-Based Theory,Optimality Theory and Native Language Magnet Model.
Conclu:Language acquisition has been one of the central topics in cognitive science but has
also been one of the most controversial. Languages are complex combinations of elegant
principles and historical accidents, which is perhaps one of the reasons why there is no
monolithic explanatory theory of language.
Outline:
Title: What is psycholinguistics?
I.Introduction
a.Psycholinguistics is the study of the relationship between linguistic attitude and
psychological actions along with the process of language acquisition.
b.More information about the discipline of psycholinguistics.
c. Thesis statement:
II.Topic of body paragraph 1: Theories of language acquisition.
a.Theories of language acquisition are important because they influenced the study of
psycholinguistics.
b. behaviourist theory.
c. innateness theory.
d.social interactionist and cognitive theory.
III. Topic of body paragraph 2: Methodologies.
a.Furthermore there are a lot of methods to improve different aspects connected with
psycholinguistics.
b.Behavioral tasks and Language production errors.
c.Eye-movements.
d.Computational modeling.
IV.Topic of body paragraph 3: Different fields of study.
a.Psycholinguistics analyse different themes related to language acquisition,language
production,language comprehesion and second language acquisition.
b.syntax and morphology.
c.phonetics and phonology
d.semantics.
V.Conclusion.
