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2.Syntax : active easier than passive
The lifeguard rescued the swimmer. The swimmer was rescued by the lifeguard.
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Comprehension of speech
Top-down
3.Semantic factors
• How are the corresponding first language(L1) and second language(L2) words related and why does code switching occur relatively frequently?
• In what ways does our mother tongue interfere with the production of L2 speech?
The swimmer rescued thby the lifeguard.
4. Discourse level
Difficult to understand or remember: Short, vaguely written paragraphs without titles, pictures and other contextual clues
• Why do we usually speak more slowly and hesitantly in a foreign language than in our mother tongue?
• How do speakers try to compensate for the gaps in their incomplete L2 system?
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Structure
• Introduction and Background • Research comprehension /production
/acquisition/dissolution/linguistic relativity
They almost never violate phonotactic rules of a language.
Brake fluid to Blake fruid You noble ton ofs soil
Briefly, slips of the tongue suggest that
many structures and rules posited by
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A special area of interest: how the production of a foreign language differs from speaking in one’s mother tongue.
• At which production stage is the language of the message decided?
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Research
Comprehension
• Common theme: how the linguistic activities most people perceive as simple and commonplace turn out, after scientific scrutiny, to be exceedingly complex processes.
Comprehension of speech
Bottom-up: phoneme
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identification
Comprehension of speech
Top-down
1.Contextual clues
-eel was on the shoe.
Heel
-eel was on the orange. Peel
De Bot1992; Dornyei and Kormos 1998;Poulisse and Bongaerts 1994;
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Formulation:
slips of the tongue
Spoonerism:
“You noble tons of soil ” to “you noble sons of toil”
• Practice • Conclusion • Reference
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Introduction
• Psycholinguistics • The psychology of language • Cognitive science
Diversity &breadth
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Definition :… any inquiry that attempts to use cognitive processing of linguistic data as a window to how the human mind operates.
1.How do people comprehend language? 2.How do they produce it? 3.How do they acquire it? 4.How do they lose it? 5.How does a particular language affect cognition, if at all?
PL finding: heavy reliance on bottom-up details does not significantly facilitate comprehensio7n.
Production
• Conceptualization • Formulation • Articulation • Self-monitoring
linguists are “psychologically real” in that
they seem to shape the formulation of