PSyCholinguistics-a dead disciplne! term coined in 1954 [Osgood] aim: to describe the exact operation of the brain during the production or processing of language psychology PSycho

Language as an interface Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture. but also simpler and easier. Victor hugo

Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Psycholinguistics: study of language acquisItion, Storage, comprehension, and production Neurolinguistics: study of the neural and electrochemical bases of language development and use

Psycholinguistic division of language PCHQ-LINGUISTS Comprehension reading listening words Visual/

Antonymy is a standard technical term used for oppositeness of meaning between lexemes

Linguistic Meaning The meaning of linguistic items. (linguistic item= anything, from word, to a grammatical morpheme or a combination of words). Different from personal/social/ cultural meanings

Linguistic Meaning The meaning of linguistic items. (linguistic item= anything, from word, to a grammatical morpheme or a combination of words). Different from personal/social/ cultural meanings

Hyponymy dog means the collection of all dogs mammal means the collection of all mammals X is hyponym of Y the meaning of is contained in the meaning of Y

Morphology and Syntax England's Queen is Elizabeth l The Queen of England is Elizabeth He loves books He is a lover of books The planes which fly are red The flying planes are red He is hungrier than she He is more hungry than She

Chapter four Syntax 1. What is syntax? Syntax is the study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a language. Simply speaking, it is the study of the formation of sentences. There are different approaches to syntax in the linguistic field