Relationship between Cognitive
Psychology and Other Disciplines
Eysenck, Michael W. and Mark T. Kean. 1995. Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook,
third edition. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, p. 4, Figure 1.1.
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Abbreviated Table of Contents of
Psychology of Language -1
(David W. Carroll, fifth edition)
Part 1: General Issues
1. Introduction: Themes of Psycholinguistics
2. Linguistic Principles
3.Psychological Mechanisms
Part 2: Language Comprehension
4. Perception of Language
5. The Internal Lexicon
6. Sentence Comprehension and Memory
7. Discourse Comprehension and Memory
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Abbreviated Table of Contents of
Psychology of Language - 2
(David W. Carroll, fifth edition)
Part 3: Language Production and
Conversational Interaction
8. Production of Speech and Language
9. Conversational Interaction
Part 4: Language Acquisition
10. Early Language Acquisition
11. Later Language Acquisition
12. Processes of Language Acquisition
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Abbreviated Table of Contents of
Psychology of Language - 3
(David W. Carroll, fifth edition)
Part 5: Language in Perspective
13. Biological Foundations of Language
14. Language, Culture, and Cognition
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Implicit Language Knowledge -1
You know how to
1. Make novel unique sentences that other
people can understand:
"The printer for my computer needs a new
cable."
2. Recognize whether a sentence is good
English:
*He the book red up picked."
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Implicit Language Knowledge -2
3. Have intuitions: sentence relatedness
"John picked the ball up."
"John picked it up."
"Mary picked up the ball."
*"Mary picked up it."
give / hand me the ball / to me
contribute / donate *me / to me
4. Recognize implications (pragmatics):
"Could you open the window?"
"Can you pass me the salt?"
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Linguistic Knowledge - 1
Syntax (Arrangement of words/phrases)
"I am not happy" vs *"I eat not apples"
Semantics (Meaning)
"cup" vs "glass"
Phonology (Rules of the Sound System)
"spring", "sprish", "sfrish"
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Linguistic Knowledge - 2
Pragmatics (Sociolinguistic Rules)
"Hello, is Mary there?" "Yes......."
Lexicon
* "The girl put the book"
Morphology
"books", "running", "walked",
"nation-al-ize"
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Linguistic Knowledge
—Processes
 General Cognitive Processes
perception
memory
thinking
problem solving
 Language-Related Processes
comprehension
production
acquisition
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Sources of Data for
Psycholinguistic Investigation
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Garden Path Sentences
Indirect Requests
Aphasia
Child Language
Child Language Acquisition
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Time Line of Selected Events in
History of Psychology
1900s
Psycholinguistics Round 1:
Interest in Mental Processes
1920s
Rise of Behaviorism
1950s
Psycholinguistics Round 2:
Resurge of Interest
1957
Skinner's Verbal Behavior
Chomsky
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