Chapter 6 语言学Language Processing in Mind-T分析和总结.docxVIP

1 1 Chapter VI Language Processing in Mind Introduction Why study language? LANGUAGE is a mirror of the mind in a deep and significant sense. It is a product of human intelligence, created anew in each individual by operations that lie far beyond the reach of will or consciousness. (Chomsky, Reflections on Language, 1975) Psycholinguistics is the study of “language and min,do”r to be more exact, can perhaps be glossed as the storage, comprehension, production and acquisition of language in any medium (spoken or written). PSYCHOLINGUISTICS is concerned primarily with investigating the psycholog