ABSTRACT
In this chapter we re-examine the themes raised in the first chapter. I also summarize the present status of the psychology of language, and indicate where it might go in the future.
By now I hope you have been convinced that psycholinguists have made great progress in understanding the processes involved in language. Since the birth of modern psycholinguistics, sometime around Chomsky’s (1959) review of Skinner’s book Verbal Behavior, it has achieved independence from linguistics and has flourished on all fronts. I also hope you have been convinced that the cognitive approach to psycholinguistics in particular has taught us a very great deal indeed. Many questions remain, and in some respects the more we learn, the more questions are raised.
