Overview of Psycholinguistics
This is the study of morphemes, it examines how we create words by combining morphemes.
What is morphology?
This is the use of words like "no" and "not"
What is negatives?
This is discipline that examines how the brain processes language.
What is neurolinguistics?
This is recognition directly through vision without sounding out words.
What is direct-access route?
This is interrelated language units larger than a sentence.
What is discourse?
This is the knowledge of the social rules that underline language use.
What is pragmatics?
These are words or phrases that are difficult to comprehend.
What is ambiguity?
This is trouble producing speech or comprehending language.
What is broca's aphasia?
This approach argues that characteristics of the reader also determine whether access is indirect or direct.
What is the dual-approach?
This researcher found that highly anxious students performed poorly on reading comprehension test.
Who is Cassady?
This researcher said that children have powerful cognitive and social-learning skills that interact with language.
Who is Tomasello?
This is when we do not wait until an entire sentence is spoken before making judgements on what it means.
What is incremental interpretation?
This hemisphere of the brain does most of the language processing for most people.
What is the left hemisphere?
This approach argues that recognize words by trying to announce the individual letters in the word.
What is the phonics approach?
This view is when readers integrate information from previous knowledge and various parts of the text.
What is the constructivist view of inferences?