PSYCHO LINGUISTICS PAPERS

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PSYCHO LINGUISTICS PAPERS

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION


1.1.Background of Study
Psycholinguistics is the branch deals with the relationship between language and the mind, focusing mainly on how language is learned, stored, and occasionally lost. The relationship between language and mind has two aspects, acquisition and performance, and the two are intimately linked.
The field of psycholinguistics attempts to answer questions about how language is represented and processed in the brain and what areas of the brain are used for language processing. Psycholinguistics is an experimental discipline that tests assumptions about processing and the learning of language. The brain is divided into two nearly symmetrical halves, the right and the left hemispheres, each of which is responsible for processing certain kinds of information concerning the world around us.
There are three major areas of study in the domain of psycholinguistics, so far we have considered how language is represented in the mind and how language is acquired. But another area is how people use their knowledge of language. How do they understand what they hear. How do they produce message that others can understand it turn.

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