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CHAPTER I
BASIC OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC

Psycholinguistics is a branch of study which combines the

disciplines of psychology and linguistics. It is concerned with the
relationship between the human mind and the language as it
examines the processes that occur in brain while producing and

perceiving both written and spoken discourse. What is more, it is
interested in the ways of storing lexical items and syntactic rules
in mind, as well as the processes of memory involved in

perception and interpretation of texts. Also, the processes of
speaking and listening are analyzed, along with language

acquisition and language disorders. Generally, Psycholinguistics
covers three main points (Clark & Clark, 1977 in Tanenhaus,
1989)

1. Comprehension: How people understand spoken and

written language
a. Imitation

Williams, Whiten, Suddendorf and Perrett (2001) say
imitation involves converting an action plan from the others
perspective into ones own; autistic children may have a

specific deficit in motor imitation, which, curiously, may go
with echolalia and other repetitive behaviours; autistic

children may suffer from a failure or distortion in the
development of the neural mirror system. In Meltzoff and
Prinz (2002) developmental theory of imitation, the observer

uses visual perception as the basis for an action plan;
execution of the motor output involves vision, cross-modal

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