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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