history of linguistics
who is considered the father of modern linguistics?
Noam Chomsky is often considered the father of modern linguistics due to his revolutionary theories on syntax, grammar, and language acquisition.
What university were they associated with?
Leipzig university
what is psycholinguistic?
Psycholinguistics is the study of how we understand, produce, and learn language. It looks at how our brain processes words and sentences, how we make sense of language, and how we use it to communicate.
what do you think about sanskrit?
Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-Aryan language that holds immense cultural, religious, and linguistic significance, particularly in South Asia.
how they called except neogrammarians?
young grammarians
Main Goals and Objectives of Psycholinguistics?
Understanding language processing
Explaining language acquisition
Investigating the relationship between cognition and language
Developing models of language processing
Improving language disorders
when was the dark periods?
between 500-1500years
In what country and in what century were they?
Germany 19th century
Founders of phsycolinguistics?
Noam Chomsky
Jean Piaget
Burrhus Fredric Skinner
Lev Vygotsky
What was the main contribution of Ferdinand de Saussure to linguistics?
His main contributions to structuralism include his notion of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign.
How did the Neogrammarians influence the study of language evolution and historical linguistics?
The Neogrammarians revolutionized historical linguistics by proposing that sound changes are governed by laws of phonetic regularity, rather than being sporadic or irregular.
Definitions of these terms: code-switching and bilingual lexical access?
Code-switching: The practice of alternating between languages in speech.
Bilingual lexical access: How bilinguals access words from two languages and how this differs from monolinguals.
who was the founder of the Sanskrit language?
Panini was an ancient Indian scholar and linguist, best known for his work on Sanskrit grammar.
How Grimm’s low and Verner’s low connected with Indo European linguistics?
together they played a major role in the development of Indo-European linguistics
What does pragmatics include?
speech act theory and discourse analysis.