turesandprocesseswhichunderlineahuman’sabilitytospeakandunderstandlanguage.Psycholinguistsarenotnecessarilyinterestedinlanguageinteractionbetweenpeople.Theyaretryingabovealltoprobeintowhatishappeningwithintheindividual.ThescopeofpsycholinguisticsAtitsheart,psycholinguisticworkconsistsoftwoquestions.–Whatknowledgeoflanguageisneededforustouselanguage?–Whatprocessesareinvolvedintheuseoflanguage?The“knowledge”questionFourbroadareasoflanguageknowledge:Semanticsdealswiththemeaningsofsentencesandwords.Syntaxinvolvesthegrammaticalarrangementofwordswithinthesentence.Phonologyconcernsthesystemofsoundsinalanguage.Pragmaticsentailsthesocialrulesinvolvedinlanguageuse.Itisnotordinarilyproductivetoaskpeopleexplicitlywhattheyknowabouttheseaspectsoflanguage.Weinferlinguisticknowledgefromobservablebehavior.
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