Psycholinguistics Understanding English Language Science Research Paper

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INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLINGUISTICS MATTHEW J. TRAXLER UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE SCIENCE


Q-1 How can speech errors and tip of the tongue experiences inform us about the nature of the speech production system? (350 words) you can find the answer in page 37 to 46 in the book.


Q-2 ' While Tony was visiting the doctor praised the nurse.'

Explain the two potential syntactic structures for the above sentence. Based on the Garden Path theory and the two heuristics proposed, explain the processing stages leading to the final structure. What is the disambiguating point in the above sentence? (400 words) you can find the answer in page 147 to 151 in the book

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Running head: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

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Question-1
Human communication mostly occur via speech, therefore, an understanding of
speech production aids in understanding of human language capabilities (Traxler, 2011,
p.37). The production of acoustic signal is thereby produced for the listeners to decode and
get the speaker’s intended meaning. The speaker’s intended meaning maybe misinterpreted
because of existence of errors, which inhibits human communication. In this respect, peculiar
acoustic of speech are established and as a result, obstacles emerge and act as an impediment
in speech production system. A speech error is a mismatch of what is intended to be said and
what is said. Despite that speech errors show our true inner thoughts as they are also a
reflection of a breakdown in numerous components of the speech production process and
system. Since speech errors are not rand...

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