The reasonable person adapts himself to the world while the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt he world to himse!.” George bernard Shaw

PSyCholinguistics-a dead disciplne! term coined in 1954 [Osgood] aim: to describe the exact operation of the brain during the production or processing of language psychology PSycho

Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Psycholinguistics: study of language acquisItion, Storage, comprehension, and production Neurolinguistics: study of the neural and electrochemical bases of language development and use

Antonymy is a standard technical term used for oppositeness of meaning between lexemes

Linguistic Meaning The meaning of linguistic items. (linguistic item= anything, from word, to a grammatical morpheme or a combination of words). Different from personal/social/ cultural meanings

Morphology and Syntax England's Queen is Elizabeth l The Queen of England is Elizabeth He loves books He is a lover of books The planes which fly are red The flying planes are red He is hungrier than she He is more hungry than She

1. Parsing This boy can solve the problem This boy can solve the problem

featuresof WORD Word: a unit of expression that has universal intuitive recognition by native speakers but difficult to define 1. Three senses of a word 2. Identifications of words 3. Classification of words

say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson, \A Word\ A particular string of sounds must be united with a meaning and a meaning must be united with specific sounds in order for the sounds or the meaning to be a word in our mental lexicon. A word, then, is a free form which does not consist entirely of (2/3) lesser free forms; in brief

Important Concepts(2) Langue Parole 2. Competence Performance 12 3. Synchronic Vs diachronic 4. Etic vs. Emic