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Wilhelm Wundt
In Die Sprache(1900) he says that Psycholinguistics is much about the mind as it is about language. -
Leonard Bloomfield
The Bloomfieldian school was born (with "Bloomfield's Language" published in 1933) and promoted the study of language independently of psychology -
J. R. Kantor
He attempted to refute the idea that language reflected any form of internal cognition or mind.
The earliest use of psycholinguistic was in "Kantor's Objective Psychology of Grammar". -
McCulloch and Pitts(Connectionism)
In contrast to the ideals of the behaviourist traditions, they developed internal representations -
Karl Lashley
The field moved on following Karl Lashley's article(1951) on serial order in behaviour -
Osgood & Sebeok
The term Psycholinguistic became more firmly established with the publication "Psycholinguistic: A survey of theory and research problems" -
The Chomskian revolution
Chomsky published "Chomsky's Syntactic structures(1957)" a monograph devoted to exploring the notion of grammatical rules.
In 1959 he published a review of Skinner's Verbal Behaviour.
Chomsky reintroduced the mind, and specifically mental representation, into theories of language. -
Skinner(Behaviorism)
In his"Verbal behaviour" he argued for a system of internal mediating events to explain some of the phenomena that the conditioning of verbal responses could not explain -
Blumenthal
He described psycholinguistics in the early to mid-20th century as the study of verbal learning and verbal behaviour -
Miller & Johnson-Laird
Psycholexicology -
William James
The principles of psychology -
Wexler & Culicover
Theory to transformational grammar -
Pinker
Theory to lexical-functional grammar -
Slobin
Slobin's crosslinguistic project -
Rumelhart and McClelland(Connectionism)
They published "Parallel distributed processing" in which they described a range of connectionist, or neural network, models of learning, and cognition. -
Elman(Connectionism)
He showed how a particular kind of network could learn the dependencies that constrain the sequential ordering of elements through time. -
Gomez & Gerken
They induced grammar-like rules to adult sentence processing -
Saffran, Aslin & Newport
They investigate issues ranging from infants' abilities to segment speech
