Introduction to Universal Grammar-Chomsky Universal Grammar and Psycholinguistics

Chomsky’s Generative Grammar

Since 1960, a school thought of Linguistics is predominated by (transformational) generative grammar. He thought that a set of grammar rules is generated by a machine. The founding father of generative grammar – Noam Chomsky – is the most important figure in seeing the relation between linguistics and psychology.

Second Language Learning and Bilingualism- Psycholinguistics Study

All people including those who live in the forests of the jungle and desert islands use language to communicate. Anything that is done by humans when interacting with his fellow man, whether it's when playing, fighting, screwing or conduct transactions of buying and selling, they talk with face-to-face, sometimes we also talked over the phone. Sometimes we talked to use the words spoken, sometimes simply by using the short message facility on the mobile. In short, in our lives there is almost no time passed without us talking, even in sleep was sometimes we still talk. Some of us even talking to pets, some were happy to speak for themselves.

Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Aspects

Psycholinguistics language relationship with brain discusses the process and communicate utterance and in language acquisition The important thing is how to process and generate utterance and how that language acquisition takes place.

Introduction to Psycholinguistics Sumarized by Tri Rina Budiwati

Definition

Psycholinguistics or Linguistics of Psychology: the study of the psychological and neurological factors that enable humans to acquire, use and understand language (wikipedia). on the other hand, Osgood and Sebeok defines that Psycholinguistics deals with directly with the processes of encoding and decoding as they relate states of message to states of communicators.

Language and Brain-Language Areas and Their Functioning

The Hemispheres of the Brain

The general structure of the brain is that of a whole which is divided into vertical halves which seem to be mirror images of one another. It looks much like a walnut with the two parts joined around the middle, except there is little space between the two halves in the real brain. Each half of the brain is called a hemisphere. There is a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere.The hemispheres come out of the brain stem, which connects to the spinal cord. the following is brief illustration of Hemispheres of the Brain.

Language Production and Comprehension- The Activities of Ears, Brain and Speech Organs

We might understand that language form is in the written and spoken language, but have we ever thought how language produced. through the psycholinguistic we can understand how language is produced. In our minds, we have the means for producing (making) and comprehending (understanding) speech. meanwhile butter-worth is the output of the comprehension – speech or writing – is more concrete or more easily analyzed.