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Garrett 1974). The connection between psychology and linguistics were particularly
close in the area of syntax, with psycholinguists testing the psychological reality of
various proposed linguists rules. As the field of <strong>psycholinguistic</strong>s developed, it
become clear that theories of sentence comprehension and production cannot be
based in any simple way on linguistic theories; <strong>psycholinguistic</strong> theories must
consider the properties of the human mind as well as the structure of the language.
Psycholinguistics has thus become its own area of inquiry, informed by but not totally
dependent on linguistics.
In general usage, and more specifically in reference to education and
psychology, language comprehension has roughly the same meaning as
understanding language. It is also defined as the ability to understand or know.
Sounds or letters strike our ears or eyes in a swift and linear fashion creating
words, which in turn very quickly form phrases, clauses, and sentences so that
comprehension seems to be nothing more than the recognition of a sequential string
of linguistic symbols, albeit at a very rapid pace.
In the comprehension of speech sounds, people see further evidence that some
part of human language are innate, and do not have to be learned. The comprehension
of words has shown that people are very much affected by context, and their
understanding is both facilitated and complicated by the different pieces of
knowledge they possess for each logged. David W Carroll (1985: 109) states that
there are four sections to analyze the process of language comprehension: the first
section considers the linguistic structure of speech. Next, consider the way we
identify different speech sound when presented in isolation, followed by a discussion
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