Teaching Materials for Psycholinguistics

Abstract

This handout is complemented by related theories to enrich the explanations of psycholinguistics to students. The materials are compiled to 11 subjects of discussion, they are: 1. Introduction: What Is Psycholinguistics? 2. The Biological Basis of Language (Fernández and Cairns 2010:70) 3. Language and Brain 4. Information Flow and Language Ambiguity 5. The Acquisition of Language 6. The Speaker: Producing Speech 7. The Hearer: Structural Processing 8. Remembering Sentences, Processing Discourse, and Having Conversations (Fernández & Cairns, 2011). 9. The Hearer: Speech Perception and Lexical Access (Fernández & Cairns, 2011) 10. The Production of Utterances (Hormann, 1986, p. 201) 11. Understanding Speech, Understanding Speakers (Hormann, 1986)