Free Essays on Psycholinguistics

  1. The Intelligent Essay Assessor: Applications to Educational Technology

    computational model of human knowledge representation and a method for extracting semantic similarity of words and passages from text. Simulations of psycholinguistic phenomena show that LSA reflects similarities of human meaning effectively. To assess essay quality, LSA is first trained on domain-representative...

  2. general psychology

    Comparative Cross-cultural Cultural Developmental Differential Evolutionary Experimental Intelligence Mathematical Neuropsychology Personality Psycholinguistics Psychophysics Psychophysiology Social Theoretical Applied psychology Anomalistic Applied behavior analysis Assessment Clinical Community Consumer...

  3. Cognition and Language

    deciphering their meanings. Research is showing that poor readers have a limited understanding of language structure or syntax as it is known in psycholinguistics, the study of language and how humans use and acquire it. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of language on reading comprehension...

  4. miss

    Pethick, S. J. (1998). Scores on the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory of children from low- and middle income families. Applied Psycholinguistics, 19(2), 209–223. Baratz, J. C. (1970). Teaching reading in an urgan negro school system. In F. Williams (Ed.), Language and poverty. Chicago...

  5. 8 Weeks to serious fat loss

    showcased remarkable nonverbal communication skills, using her face and hands to express emotion as documented in Susie Curtis’s book, “Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern Day Child”. She also developed socially during this time, at a very rapid pace. Her overall demeanor changed and she became...

  6. Reading report

    What we can take from Ali’s view was that he wanted reading to be enjoyable and one with meaning. The whole language approach based on the psycholinguistic perspective was advocated by Noam Chomsky (1965) who stated that: humans have an innate predisposition to learn a language”. His pedagogy argues...

  7. The Acquisition of a Second Language: Does Age Matter?

    second language during their critical period may not be able to fully master one beyond this point. References Curtiss, S. (1977). Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day “Wild Child”. New York, NY: Academic Press, Inc. Hauser, M.D., Chomsky, N., Fitch, W.T. (2002, November 22). The Faculty...

  8. Some Pitfalls of Doing Qualitative Discourse Analysis

    radical: In the most common form, discourse refers to any regulated system of statements. This definition has a long history. For example, in psycholinguistics it involved structural analysis at the expense of content that was usually ignored. Post-structuralism gradually broke with this static definition...

  9. Learning Paper

    that how one thinks largely determines how one feels and behaves. This relates to and incorporates to all forms of knowing, including memory, psycholinguistics, thinking, comprehension, motivation, and perception. (Raines, et.al., 1996) The cognitive approach is not only focused on humans but can also...

  10. Language Change

    form in the same way. The causes of changes are generally divided by linguists into two broad categories. On the one hand, there are internal psycholinguistic factors, that is, linguistic and psychological ones which reside in the structure of the language and in the minds of speakers. On the other hand...

  11. anything

    sufficient in Pakistan — one would have thought we would have originate the respond by now. Unfortunately, we haven’t. Those who have studied the psycholinguistic development of a child are very clear about their conclusion. They say that cognitive development and language development are closely related...

  12. Cross Cultural Intelligence

    in cognitive ability shape demonstrated in the above test. She stated a research done by Stephen C. Levinson of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and John B. Haviland of the University of California which demonstrated that speakers of languages relying on absolute directions...

  13. Communicative Language Training

    (Chomsky, N. 1986. Knowledge of Language: It's Nature, Origin and Use. N.Y. P. 24. Aitchison, J. 1999. The Articulate Mammal. An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. L.,N.Y.P.180-182. Harley,T. 1997. The Psychology of Language. Psychology Press. P.141). Linguistic competence is only part of what is needed...

  14. Bilingual Education

    early immersion in a second language can facilitate a child's second language learning by taking advantage of his or her special neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and cognitive capacities to learn language (Genesee 1984; Lambert, 1984 cited in Lindholm, 1992). Fourth, language input to the students is adjusted...

  15. safs

    Child language: acquisition and growth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Aitchison, J. (1938), The articulate mammal: an introduction to psycholinguistics, London: Routledge Pinker, S., (1954), The language instinct: how the mind creates language, New York; London: Harper Law 1. Assess the...

  16. Swain Modulation

    22, 2005), I googled ‘languaging’ and found over 47,300 entries. For example, in 1979 Lado wrote a paper titled ‘Thinking and ‘languaging’: A psycholinguistic model of performance and learning.’ There Lado states that ‘Since English has no generic term to refer globally to the various uses of language...

  17. Sonic

    reliability of coding paralanguage: Pitch, loudness, and tempo. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 4, 306-308. Markel, N. N. (1969). Psycholinguistics: An introduction to the study of speech and personality. Homewood, IL: Dorsey. Mehrabian, A. (1972). Nonverbal communication. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton...

  18. Using L1 in the English classroom-

    only in the ESL classroom. TESOL Quarterly 27, 1, pp. 9–32. Dörnyei, Z. and J. Kormos. 1998. Problem-solving mechanisms in L2 communication: A psycholinguistic perspective. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 20, 3, pp. 349–385. Harmer, J. 1997. The practice of English language teaching. London:...

  19. aaaaaaaaaaardttyuu

    networks”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99-9, April 2002, 5766-5771. Benoit Mandelbrot,1965, "Information theory and psycholinguistics", in Scientific Psychology: Principles and Approaches, eds. B. Wolman, E. Nagel (Basic Books), pp.550-562. GU Yule, 1944, Statistical Study...

  20. A Brain Based Model for School Reform

    children. She went so far as to claim the innateness of human language (Montessori, 1967a) years before Noam Chomsky (1959) rocked the world of psycholinguistics with that same claim.31 She talked repeatedly how important early experience is to development32 well before research in neuroscience...

  21. Good

    Her understanding of transfer is based on the definition of ‘crosslinguistic influence’ proposed by Sharwood Smith and Kellerman (1986): It is a psycholinguistic term referring to the influence on the learner which one language system he or she possesses may have on another language system. […] The term...

  22. Psychological. The Bilingual Mind

    The Bilingual Mind COGNITION AND LANGUAGE A Series in Psycholinguistics • Series Editor: R. W. RIEBER Recent Volumes in this Series: THE BILINGUAL MIND: Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in Two Languages Rafael Art. Javier THE COLLECTED WORKS OF L. S. VYGOTSKY Volume 1: Problems of General Psychology...

  23. KAL AND THE GOOD LANGUAGE TEACHER

    they need explicit knowledge of grammar as a base on which to build up their implicit knowledge: ‘We know this intrinsic structure exists from psycholinguistics ... so we must give students all possible support to build it up ... If we teach the implicit way, then it makes the process so much longer...

  24. ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ADVERTISING TEXTS IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

    languages. The basis of this theory is linguistics in the broadest sense of the word, that is, macrolinguistics with all its new branches, such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, text linguistics, communicative linguistics, etc. The core of the translation theory is the general theory of translation...

  25. tesol

    characteristics to the letter. Learner styles and strategies A preoccupation with learner personalities and styles has been a major factor in psycholinguistic research. Are there different kinds of learner? Are there different kinds of behaviour in a group? How can we tailor our teaching to match the...

  26. The Relationship Between Gender

    Modern Language Journal 75 (1991): 173-180. Favreau, Micheline & Norman S. Segalowitz. "Second Language Reading in Fluent Bilinguals." Applied Psycholinguistics 3 (1982): 329-41. Flaherty, Etienne. "Rate-Controlled Speech in Foreign Language Education." CAL-ERICI CLL Series on Languages and Linguistics...

  27. Early Years Learning and Development

    Learning to use language. New York: Norton. Bryant, P., MacLean, M., & Bradley, L., (1990). Rhyme, language, and children’s reading. Applied Psycholinguistics, 11(3), 237-252. Butterworth, G.E., & Itakura, S., (2000). How the eyes, head and hand serve definite reference. British Journal of Developmental...

  28. applied linguistics and esp

    opinion is in favour of a pragmatic analysis. primary tense see under temporal deixis priming This concerns a finding in experimental psycholinguistics. Subjects are asked to press either a ‘Yes’ or a ‘No’ button in response to a sequence of letters flashed on a screen, according to whether...