Psychology Express: Cognitive Psychology (Undergraduate Revision Guide) by Jonathan Ling & Jonathan Catling & Dominic Upton

Author:Jonathan Ling & Jonathan Catling & Dominic Upton [Ling, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780273759683
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 2014-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

Test your knowledge

What is language?

8.1 What are the main defining features of language?

8.2 What is a phoneme?

8.3 What is a morpheme?

8.4 What is the lexicon?

8.5 What is syntax?

8.6 What are semantics?

8.7 What is discourse?

Answers to these questions can be found on the companion website at: www.pearsoned.co.uk/psychologyexpress

Sample question

Essay

Critically evaluate Hockett’s definition of language.

A brief history of psycholinguistics

Although psycholinguistics (the study of language) as we know it today is still a relatively young subdiscipline within the field of psychology, its beginnings date back to the end of the 19th century. Whilst many of the early Greek philosophers had a documented interest in language, many regard Wundt as the father of modern-day language research at the turn of the 20th century. The study of language has gone through a number of distinct stages or phases of development since then and has slowly evolved into what we would recognise as modern psycholinguistics today (see Figure 8.1).

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