Questions tagged [psycholinguistics]
Questions that are about the neurobiological and psychological factors that affect the acquisition, comprehension and utilisation of the language in human beings.
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Carrying a mistake in a sentence until contradiction
I am new to the field of linguistics so please forgive any ignorance or naivety, but there is something I have been thinking about recently and cannot find anything about it online. I suppose there ...
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What are External and Internal language?
I would like to know about External and Internal language.
Suppose I was talking about a person who was not either good or great. I was praising him in my speech as he was my superior though I felt ...
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Sociolinguistics/Psycholinguistics: Does imitation play any role in child language acquisition?
Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics: Does imitation play any role in child language acquisition?
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What are the cognitive mechanisms of language production?
I am having trouble understanding what a "cognitive mechanism" is. More specifically, maybe I'm not understanding how abstract a "cognitive mechanism" should be. I understand that it's not identical ...
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Word meaning as function of the composition of its phonemes
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Linguists like to claim that the mapping from sounds to word meanings is mostly arbitrary. Can you point out research that supports this claim? Specificllay I am looking for hard evidience in ...
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Accidentally speak Japanese on reflex
There is one time I woke up late and accidentally speak in Japanese "yabai" which means "oh no" or "this is bad", when I came around after finishing getting ready I then realized I've just spoken in ...
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Where can I find a set of Spanish-English comparable texts? ***(Not translations)***
This is my very first post, I hope I'm making myself clear.
What I'm asking for is a set of texts that are equivalent in both languages in terms of difficulty, word frequency and register (i.e. two ...
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What factors determine the numeral coming to numbers such as -1, 0, 0.5, 100% in a language which has and only has contrast in singular and plural?
I have searched by corpus and found variant results for the same number above. People also hesitate with these numbers and make different sortation. Is there any research about any psycolinguistical ...
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What's the difference between 'concept' and 'meaning'?
Like in the title, are concepts expressed only by some parts of the speech:
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs ? In sentence: The cat ate food - all words are concepts or only the noun ? All those ...
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How can we use the same word in multiple different ways and distinguish the senses so easily?
Say for example some plant names. We have an orange which we easily know is a fruit, but is also a color. We have green which is a color, and greens which is plants, or money, or I could imagine it ...
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Can we use the reverse of mental priming to get out of the 'Mary's Room' problem? [closed]
So there is this semantics/psycholinguistics concept called mental-priming, which says for a concept called 'red' nearby concepts like apple, color, danger etc. 'light up' . Can we teach Mary, what ...
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Selective fluency - is it a thing?
I speak 4 languages, and I have the least exposure to my native language, since I never lived in the region where it's spoken. My only exposure to it is speaking to my parents, and some TV. I grew up ...
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Precise timing measurement in Praat / .wav files
When analyzing .wav files in Praat, total time duration and target speech segments are represented down to 6 decimals. For example: 154.900000 seconds (borrowed from a Google image screenshot). ...
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Why is [la] widely used as a substitution for singing? Is it a worldwide phenomenon?
When people sing without knowing or using the text, they often sing as lalalala...
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How is a meaningful sentence or paragraph constructed?
I don't have a formal background of linguistics, but I'd like to know how a sentence or paragraph becomes meaningful to a reader, and how one can construct that. I think it falls to the areas of ...
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Linguistic theory of “signs”
First of all thank you all for taking the time to read me.
I have been entrusted in the language course of the career I am studying to read the theory of the sign of Ferdinand de Saussure. My ...
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Research on development of language of modality in children 8-12?
Let me quickly introduce myself to provide a context for my questions. My PhD research focuses on ways that we can teach primary school children (9-12) ways of handling complex, contradictory and ...
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Is there any “standard” definition of “linguistic input”?
Recently, I've started wondering how to characterize "linguistic input" and realized that the notion is very rarely unpacked. It seems as if everyone takes it to be obvious, and immediately goes to ...
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Evidence proving lingustic perception of speech in brain?
Is there any evidence that speech is perceived linguistically, meaning is there evidence that shows that speech in the brain is perceived as phonemes, morphemes, and so on?
I was thinking whether ...
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What only native speakers and native writers (?) know
Even after many years, even after getting proficient in a foreign language, non-native speakers won't lose their foreign accent.
Is there an equivalent to this for non-native writers? Will be ...
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Can a child learn a second language only by hearing it over the telephone?
Hi! This question is really important to me personally and I would love to hear from children-learning-experts as well as anybody who made a relevant experience in this area. Some background first: My ...
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dealing with those responses before target offset in a priming experiment
We conducted a priming lexical decision experiment, and the response time was calculated from the target onset. However when we cleaned the data, we found that some responses were given before the ...
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How would a trained linguist describe this hypothesis of Symbolic Leverage
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Two economics students are attempting to describe a concept of language, but do not know of any formally-recognized terms or research that explain this concept.
They believe there is an ...
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Are there any good individualistic measures of linguistic conservatism?
I am currently examining how differing levels of genderisation across languages (French, Finnish, and Norwegian) affects self-perception and the social perception of others through the utilisation of ...
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Does capitalizing nouns improve readability?
In German, one capitalizes the nouns in a sentence. In the video Life in Germany - Ep. 42: English vs. German, an American claims that capitalizing the nouns makes it easier to understand a sentence.
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Are there languages with no first person?
Fiction is rife with characters who always speak in third person. Often, such characters are portrayed as having a native language or culture that lacks the concept of a first person, and hence they ...
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Experiment of creating an artificial language by cycles of memorizing errors
Once I saw an experiment on a documentary which a simple artificial language (just a set of ten words or something like that) was artificially created by a recurring process of memorizing errors of ...
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How and when do French children learn to select between masculine and feminine forms of words when referring to themselves?
I am interested in what knowledge we have regarding the process by which a young child acquiring French as a first language learns to choose correctly between the masculine and feminine forms of ...
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Reading a word wrong, but reading it correctly after trying again
In several occasions, while reading, it has happened to me that when re-reading a sentence, I find out I read it wrong the first time; every time it is only one letter the one that I get wrong, but I ...
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Saying words aloud to confirm/disprove accuracy of written language
I had a really interesting thought the other day:
Is oral language dominant/superior in some way to written language?
I bring this up because every time I need to correct or edit my written words (I ...
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What does “psychological reality of sound” mean ?
I am taking an introduction course about linguistics.
When my teacher was trying to explain the difference between phonetics and phonology she said something like:
"PHONETICS is study of physical ...
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Linguistics relativity and linguistic determinism
What is the difference between linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism ?
any suggestions for books to read concerning these topics !
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To which extent are people’s perceptions of their own pronunciation influenced by the language’s orthography?
In my experience, literate native speakers of a language tend to assume that the language’s orthography is significantly more phonetic than it actually is or, with other words, tend to think that ...
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Sapir-Whorf vs. Chomsky
Can somebody let me know if this is a reasonable explanation for how the two theories are similar and different? This is not for homework, I'm just try to understand the difference, and my textbook ...
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Does understanding free word order require a distinct cognitive process?
Abbreviate 'a language with free word order' to FWOL (eg: 1, 2, 3, 4). I exemplify with Latin.
When trying to read a FWOL, I must firstly consciously determine the lexical categories of each word, ...
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Do animals have foreign languages?
Humans living in different parts of the world develop different languages; humans living in the same area speak the same language in order to be able to communicate with each other.
We know that other ...
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Why do some people speak/whisper the words they are reading?
Not sure if this is the right stack exchange site but here goes..
Couple of people at my workplace seem to whisper or quietly speak the material they read. They do this routinely, and they speak more ...
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Psycholinguistics: any interesting studies in personality switching withing language?
I'm workiong on a school project and I want to see if there are any studies made to the following matter.
We all know what a code siwtch is , I wonder if there's something similar in personality, ...
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Does word TA comes from historically, or a psychically to many languages on earth?
Does word TA comes from historically, or a psychically to many languages on earth?
Ta, sumerian -root
Ta, english -thank
Ta, mongolian -grateful and respectful calling of "you"
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Does learning ancestral languages enrich a daughter language?
[Grammarphobia.com:] The study, published in 1973, offered this breakdown of sources [of English vocabulary]:
Latin: 28.34%; French: 28.3%;
Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25%; ...
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Are there words that induce semantic satiation more or less quickly than other words?
Some time back, I noticed that the word "amongst" induces semantic satiation for me very quickly. I don't know why, but that particular word stops making sense to me in very short order, and to be ...
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Is there a term for a made-up synonym or analogy to describe a forgotten word?
(I'm not a linguist, just generally interested in languages, so forgive me if I lack the appropriate vocabulary.)
There are some examples here, but the general gist is that someone forgets a word (in ...
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Memorability of words?
I'm asking this here as I'm not seeing a psycho-linguistic group, and I think that is what I'm looking at.
I'm hoping there is some degree of crossover.
Is there a specific word or phrase used that ...
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How can I embed language proficiency assessment within an unrelated experiment design?
I'm in the process of designing a self-paced-reading & a grammaticality-judgment-task experiment, which should be performed by second language learners. It is crucial to the study is how the ...
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Do individuals have an Occam’s razor for word meanings?
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On the German Stack Exchange, we had a lengthy discussion regarding the meaning of the word Gefäß. It was undisputed that a Gefäß is:
an item which can contain liquids
movable
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How to cope with many languages at the same time [closed]
I am a student who knows English, and whose mother tongue is Russian. I started studying English around 15 years ago and never put any effort into it. I just grew organically and managed to get to ...
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Is the semantic component of a generative grammar especially difficult to incorporate in psycholinguistic proccessing models? [closed]
It is often said that it is difficult to match up the structure rules of a grammar with psychologically realistic models of competence. I was wondering if the semantic component was especially ...
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Two tasks in one experiment design (self-paced-reading & grammaticality judgment)
For experiment design experts, I want to know if it's possible to design an experiment on PsychoPy or Open Sesame in which the subject does a self paced reading (with measuring the reading times for ...
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Language transfer for second language learners (French-English)
How does language transfer occur from French to English within native french speakers' mind? Can we observe this phenomenon ?
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Reference for help in identifying the abnormal syntax or use of language in psychotic individuals
I have a job in which I must try to differentiate between persons who are actually psychotic and those who are faking psychosis, and it is often quite difficult. I would like to identify ...
