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Language processing in mind the scope of psycholinguistics --deal with the mental processes that are in volved in language use. Three sets of processes are of primary interest: language comprehension ( how we perceive language understand speech and written language); language production (how we construct an utterance, from ideas to completed sentences), and language acquisition ( how children acquire language). Psychological Mechanisms information processing system incoming information sensory stores selective attention working memory successfully coded for storage permanent memory procedural memory declarative memory semantic memory episodic memory summary --the information processing mechanism consist of sensory stores, working memory, permanent memory and a set of control processes. --incoming sensory information is held in a literal and unanalyzed state in the sensory stores while information from the pm is retrieved to the working memory to recognized the incoming pattern. The identified information, if relevant to the current activity, is held temporarily in working memory. As new inf enters wm, some of the old inf is reorganized into larger units and sent to the pm, other inf is lost. The resulting pm has both episodic and semantic attributes. Word perception Main points: when we know a word, we know it’s phonological. Morphological, syntactic and semantic attributes. A word meaning includes both reference and sense. The organization of word knowledge in permanent memory is called internal lexicon. In semantic network, words are represented as nodes and are connected via relations to other words in the network. The process by which we activate our word knowledge is called lexical access- organization of the internal lexicon—spreading activation models t