Who does psycholinguistics?
المؤلف:
Paul Warren
المصدر:
Introducing Psycholinguistics
الجزء والصفحة:
P6
2025-10-28
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Who does psycholinguistics?
The term psycholinguistics appears to have first been used to refer to the psychology of language in the 1920s. However, the birth of psycholinguistics as a discipline is often linked to a seminar at Cornell university in 1951. The interdisciplinary nature of the field is reflected in the fact that this seminar was reported in both a psychological journal Osgood Sebeok, 1954a and a linguistics one Osgood Sebeok, 1954b. Psycholinguistics continues to be taught in both of these disciplinary areas, and is influenced by research and teaching practices and method ologies in both. Courses and research in psycholinguistics are also found in multidisciplinary cognitive science units throughout the world, and the issues studied in this area are also of interest to computer scientists particularly those interested in Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction, philosophers especially in areas concerning the development and representation of meaning and others.
Of course, our reasons for studying the psychology of language may differ, according to our starting point, and this will be reflected in the nature of courses and of research agendas. Thus, a characterisation of the psychological perspective might be that studying language use can con tribute to our knowledge of the workings of the mind. Neuropsychologists might especially be interested in locating the language faculties within the physical structures of the brain. A more linguistic perspective may be that studying language use can inform our theories of language structure, it can provide the performance data to support theories of competence, it can provide psychological validity for linguistic constructs, and so on.
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