Two Central Themes e The two central themes it concerns are What knowledge of language underlies our ordinary use of language?(p.5) It (The task of psycholinguistics), is by doing experiments, to find out what are the mechanisms that underlie linguistic competence. (Sutherland 1966: 161-2 What cognitive processes are involved in the understanding or comprehension of language the production of language memory for language. acquisition of language (cf. p. 6) HomeTwo Central Themes ◆ The two central themes it concerns are: ⧫ What knowledge of language underlies our ordinary use of language? (p.5) • “It (The task of psycholinguistics), is by doing experiments, to find out what are the mechanisms that underlie linguistic competence.” (Sutherland 1966:161-2) ⧫ What cognitive processes are involved in: • the understanding or comprehension of language • the production of language • memory for language. • acquisition of language – (cf. p.6) Home