Psycholinguistics

Defining Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is an approach to language study just like phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Considering the morphological components of the word "Psycholinguistics", two terms are traceable-- "psycho" and "linguistics". The former term, which is "psycho" has its etymology from the Greek word, "psȳchḗ" which means "mind". The later concept, "linguistics", has language as its root. Hence, the concept of Psycholinguistics simply describes the relationship between language and the human mind. Human is emphasised in the description of the concept of Psycholinguistics because of the peculiarity of language as an attribute of humans, animals use paralinguistic cues.

Scope of Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is the study of language from a psychological perspective. To be more precise, studying the psychology of language in relation to its use is the core of Psycholinguistics. Defining the scope of Psycholinguistics revolves around the following questions:

i. how do languages start?

ii. what are the components of language?

iii. what are the processes of communication?

Participants

 * List of Participants

Foundations

 * History and Major Theories - Charlie Kramer
 * Language and Thought - Midas
 * Language and the Brain - Jennifer Chetwynd
 * Hemispheric Lateralization of Language - Jennica Lounsbury


 * Connectionist Models - Ben Corrigan

Language Perception

 * Speech Perception
 * Components of Speech - Chantel Deck
 * Articulatory Phonetics - Garrett Nicolai
 * Acoustic Phonetics - Katelyn Grechuk
 * Perception of Continuous Speech - Andrea VanderHeyden
 * Models of Speech Perception - Meg Smith
 * Neural Basis of Speech Perception - Suzanne Walsh
 * Reading- Jacqueline Vincent
 * Morphology - Jillian Baker
 * Words, Meaning, and Word Recognition
 * What is a Word? - Eleanor Greer
 * The Mental Lexicon - Nathanael Crawford
 * Semantics in the Brain - Heather Gallant
 * Neural Bases of Lexical Access - Ramz Aziz
 * Sentence Processing (Syntax)
 * Formal Models of Grammar
 * Parsing - Elaine Toombs
 * Individual Differences in Syntactic Processing - Ju wen Ou
 * Syntax in the Brain - user:Alicataroo
 * Prosody - Keegan Colville
 * Discourse - Catherine McIntyre

Language and Other Human Cognitive Artefacts

 * Language and Music - Claire Brousseau
 * Language and Arithmetic - Samantha Arseneau

Language Output

 * Speech Errors - John Boudreau
 * Chronometry - Ben Parker
 * Models of Speech Production - Moragh Jang
 * Neural Components of Speech Production - Emma Horner
 * Gesture - Kathryn Fraser
 * Writing - Hilary Van Loon

Language Acquisition

 * Theories and Models of Language Acquisition- Megan J Mac Donald
 * Pidgins, Creoles, and Home Sign - Emily McGuire
 * Development of Speech Perception - Bengisu Gonul
 * Development of Speech Production - Jennifer Browning
 * Acquisition of More than One Language - Laura Doane
 * A comparison of language processing in Chinese and English - Minzhou Sun
 * Neural Basis of Multi-Lingualism - Joel Sardinha

Language Disorders

 * Aphasia - Amie Windle
 * Aphasia Rehabilitation - Taylor Dyon
 * Dyslexia - Matt Orr
 * Language in Down's Syndrome