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4. Language and the brain What neurological activity corresponds to
reading or listening? Where does the brain store linguistic
knowledge and semantic concepts?

5. Language in exceptional circumstances Why do some infants grow
up with language impairments such as dyslexia or stuttering? How
does brain damage or age affect language?

6. First language acquisition How do infants come to acquire their first language? What stages do they go through in developing syntax,
vocabulary and phonology? What evidence is there that we possess
an innate faculty for language which enables us to acquire our first
language?

4. Language and the brain What neurological activity corresponds to
reading or listening? Where does the brain store linguistic
knowledge and semantic concepts?

5. Language in exceptional circumstances Why do some infants grow
up with language impairments such as dyslexia or stuttering? How
does brain damage or age affect language?

6. First language acquisition How do infants come to acquire their first
language? What stages do they go through in developing syntax,
vocabulary and phonology? What evidence is there that we possess
an innate faculty for language which enables us to acquire our first
language?

• Although SLA is a major area of psycholinguistic research, it is best
regarded as a different discipline for the following reasons:


1. Content: SLA content ranges widely over topics drawn from
sociolinguistics, from social psychology and from educational
psychology; while mainstream Psycholinguistics bases itself heavily
upon a body of theory provided by cognitive psychology.

2. Experimental techniques: mainstream Psycholinguistics uses a
limited range of established experimental technique; studies in SLA
tend to be more eclectic in the methods they employs.