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Title of Page : Psycholinguistics (Status: C class within linguistics communities, Top-Importance):

Dear Andrew:

I agree with Remo's points. I have a few other to add:

- Subsection "Language Production" belongs in section "Theories" not "Reading"

-Neuroimaging subsection talks about corpus callosum studies, but this is not neuroimaging! I suggest adding another subsection "Lesion Studies" and put the corpus callosum stuff there, along with some other examples (Broca's and Wernicke's lesion studies would be the classics). OR: Lesion studies could go into your History of Psycholinguistics section that you are working on.

-I personally don't like the "Issues and Areas of Research" section. It seems like it's a catch-all section. You could distribute this information to the other sections of the article.

---Lucy Coffeekoala (talk) 01:45, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

In connection with improvements of the historical angle, consider readings from Weeks 4 and 5. The writing about language acquisition might benefit from readings in Weeks 1-3, as well as Weeks 12-14. Cecilemckee (talk)

General Thoughts on article's weak points and changes that could be made:

Suggested Edits and Needs:

- History of Psycholinguistics (utterly Missing): prevalent figures associated with it, evolution from the time of behaviorism through the Chomkskyan era up until today

- The Section entitled 'Reading' goes on a ramble about sentence comprehension as though this instance represents the entirety of the field. Needs to be edited and sectionalized in accordance to sentence parsing/comprehension as a part of psycholinguistics. Needs issues of word, morpheme, and phoneme comprehension as these are all important in reading and perception studies.

- Section in introduction needs serious editing: cognitive processes are not exemplified nor nearly defined.

* Phonological Perception - Possible links to categorical perception necessary, points of time in which said discriminations occur within the learner (link to Developmental Psycholinguistics)

- Semantic Perception - How perception of objects occur semantically - link to formal and/or formal semantics

- Syntactic Bootstrapping - How syntax is processed in terms of bootstrapping (small section and link on section to main article about syntactic bootstrapping)

- Mention of Developmental Psycholinguistics needs subsection and possibly hyper link to separate article devoted to it ( other sub-discipline)

- No mention of modularity theories to be seen - these are necessary as psycholinguists (linguists in general) aren't certain to the extent of which language is specialized within the brain, this debate is notable and needs to be recognized, definitely with a hyper-link to the article of Modularity of language in the brain

First Tentative Edits:

Lead Section First Paragraph (needs rephrasing and proper reference (missing)):

Original: Psycholinguistics has roots in education and philosophy, and covers the "cognitive processes" that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures, as well as the processes that make it possible to understand utterances, words, text, etc. Developmental psycholinguistics studies children's ability to learn language.

Reworking:

Psycholinguistics has roots in education and philosophy (reference needed). Its studies are concerned with the cognitive faculties and processes that are necessary in order for grammatical forms of language to be produced from a mental grammar and the lexicon. Likewise, it is also concerned with the perception of these constructions by a listener. Developmental psycholinguistics,as a branch of psycholinguistics ,concerns itself with the child's ability to learn language.

(Maybe this last paragraph should actually replace the first, it looks rather redundant in context.)

History of Psycholinguistics:

-- Origin of the term ( Portions or while maybe put into main space next week as first address, then lead section, then moving more into developing history of the field, integrating aspects of the issues of Innate Acquired (Griffiths, 2009).

Even though Psycholinguistics originated in terms of methodology, and in theoretical framework from a time before the end of the nineteenth century it was called only “Psychology of Language”. The nomenclature for the science as Psycholinguistics did not begin to come about until 1936 when Jacob Kantor, a prominent Psychologist of the time, used the term ‘Psycholinguistic’ as a description within the book An Objective Psychology of Grammar. The term only came to relevant usage, however in 1946 when the student of Kantor, Nicholas Pronko published an article by the title Psycholinguistics: A Review . Pronko’s desire was to unify the myriad of theoretical approaches within the realm of Psycholinguistics under a single name.

Future Priorities:

- Start moving portions of origins of term into main-space, with explanation on talk page. The section is short, the goal is to have the whole thing rephrased and properly cited, leaving the final sentence as is.

- Began working on final paragraph of lead section (which may replace first paragraph). I don't plan on necessarily reworking the entirety of this section; just making sure it has a strong introduction, and ending.

- Moving onto creating new subsection of article titled History of Psycholinguistics. The beginning portion of this will be heavily supported by Griffiths 2009 to give a good summary of Pre-Chomkskyan thoughts and methods,through behaviorism, and eventually try to get started on things post-behaviorism. There is a section in Theories that could be replanted into this section if I think it fits correctly.

-For now, I have no plans to delve into anything in the area of Theories, though it needs lots of work, I don't know whether I have the wherewithal to straighten any part of that out yet.

- Eventually I will turn my attention to Issues and Areas of research. This section also needs a good deal of work due to redundancy, lack of references, and general awkwardness of phrasing/ transitions.

Roots of Psycholinguistics: Language Acquisition Innateness Psycholinguistics, in seeking to understand the properties of language acquisition has roots in debates regarding innate vs acquired behaviors (both in Biology and Psychology). For some time the concept of an innate trait, was something that was not present in the psychology of the individual. However, with the redefining of innateness as time progressed, behaviors considered innate could once again be analyzed as behaviors that interacted with the psychological aspect of an individual. After the diminished popularity of the behaviorist model, ethology became once again a leading train of thought within psychology, and by these means language, as an innate property, could be examined once more in the scope of psychology.

Plans Post 533 (might talk about this during presentation)
- Final Checklist fulfilled as good as it can be given the state of the article, besides my contributions

- Changes to methodologies - remove and transplant speech errors. Speech errors are not really a scientific methodology.

- Eventually get usable media for aphasia studies, and expand this area and reorganize.

- Areas of study is also a mess that could be tackled. First paragraph is extremely confusing. Also, why is there a section called issues of research and study if this already exists here!?

- Start a new sandbox for working on this article post 533, if this is going to be a hobby for me, then I need to keep it well organized. Thank you, Cecile for giving us this opportunity to help the field.