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"Die Sprache" by Wilhem Hundt
In Die Sprache(1900) he says that Psycholinguistics is much about the mind as it is about language. -
Bloomfield’s Language
although acknowledging the behaviourist endeavour within psychology, promoted the
study of language independently of psychology, and took to the limits the taxonomic
approach to language. Notwithstanding the behaviourist backdrop, a signicant number
of empirical studies reported phenomena in those early days that still predominate today -
"Objective psychology of grammar" by J. R. Kantor
Kantor, an ardent behaviourist, attempted to refute the idea
that language reected any form of internal cognition or mind. According to Kantor, the
German psycholinguistic tradition was simply wrong. -
Birth of the new discipline of psycholinguistics
The year 1951 will indeed stand out as a hinge in the history of psycholinguistics, although not by design. It was sheer coincidence that three landmark events were packed.
-Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in Psychology
- Publication of George Miller’s Language and communication.
-Karl Lashley’s paper “The problem of serial order in behavior -
Karl Lashley’s The problem of serial order in behavior
Lashley challenged both mainstream neurophysiology and main stream psychology to reconsider their prevailing handling of temporal integration. He took the unusual approach of demonstrating the complexities of sequential ordering from linguistics.
Lashley argues that associative-chain theories in explaining serial behavior is a dead-end track. -
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George Miller’s Language and communication
The text is a blueprint for a science of communication that is both possible and worth pursuing. Shannon and Weaver’s communication theory provides the background framework, and the tools of information theory are skillfully applied throughout the text. Miller also explicitly opts for a behavioristic approach to provide the psychological basis for a theory of communication.
There is, for instance, no mention of An objective psychology of grammar -
The Summer Seminar on Psycholinguistics
The seminar produced a 200-page joint report, Psycholinguistics: A survey of theory and research problems. -
Method and theory in experimental psychology
800-page comprehensive review of the experimental literature and its theoretical interpretation by Charles Osgood -
Psycholinguistics: A survey of theory and research problems
It signaled the emergence of a new interdisciplinary effort in the study of human verbal behavior. “charter of psycholinguistics". -
Osgood & Sebeok
The term Psycholinguistic became more firmly established with the publication "Psycholinguistics: a survey of theory and research problems"
It´s a psycholinguistic theory and research covering such topics as models of the communication process; disciplines concerned with human communication; the linguistic, learning theory, and information theory approaches to language behavior; -
Verbal behaviour
Skinner, in his Verbal behaviour (1957), took on-board some of
these limitations of behaviourism when, despite advocating that psychology abandon the
mind, he argued for a system of internal mediating events to explain some of the
phenomenathat the conditioning of verbal responses could notexplain. The introduction
of such mediated events into behaviourist theory led to the emergence -
Chomsky’s Syntactic structures
(1957)—a monograph devoted to exploring the notion of grammatical rules.
With
Chomsky, out went Bloomeld, and in came mental structures, ripe for theoretical and
empirical investigation. Chomsky’s inuence on psycholinguistics, let alone linguistics,
cannot be overstated. -
"in utero"
In "In utero" by DeCasper and colleagues foundations are most commonly laid for subsequent language
learning and adult language use.
It was established in the 1980s that perhaps the rst
linguistic variation to which newborn babies are sensitive is prosody. -
"Parallel distributed processing"
This edited by Rumelhart and McClelland
volume described a range of connectionist, or neural network, models of learning and
cognition.
‘Knowledge’ in connectionist networks is encoded as patterns of connectivity
distributed across neural-like units, and ‘processing’ is manifest as spreading patterns of
activation between the units. -
Mehler
Demonstrated that newborn babies recognize,
more generally, the prosodic ‘signature’ of their mother tongue, even though they have
yet to learn the segmental characteristics of their maternal language -
Gomez & Gerken
They induced grammar-like rules to adult sentence processing