psycholinguistics
Sign in to savePsycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain; that is, the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language.
Psycholinguistics is the study of how language works in the human mind and brain, exploring the mental processes behind how we learn, understand, and speak languages. It matters because it helps us understand the psychological and biological mechanisms that make human language possible—knowledge that can shed light on how our brains function and inform approaches to language learning and language disorders.
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Research
13,399 papers- Introduction to Organizational Psycholinguistics.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2022Myskin SVDOI: 10.1007/s10936-021-09785-0
- Editorial: New Frontiers in East Asian Psycholinguistics.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2015Yip MCDOI: 10.1007/s10936-015-9373-3
- USING PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN DEVELOPING THERAPEUTIC METHODS FOR OVERCOMING ANXIETY STATES.Georgian medical news · 2025Zhylin M, Starynska O, Yatsynovych V et al.
- Psychological Impact of Languages on the Human Mind: Research on the Contribution of Psycholinguistics Approach to Teaching and Learning English.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2023Beibei SDOI: 10.1007/s10936-023-09977-w
- Toward a computational psycholinguistics of reference production.Topics in cognitive science · 2012van Deemter K, Gatt A, van Gompel RP et al.DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01187.x
- Verifying Negative Sentences.ReviewJournal of psycholinguistic research · 2021Wang S, Sun C, Tian Y et al.DOI: 10.1007/s10936-021-09798-9
- [Generative grammar and psycholinguistics. II. Psycholinguistic research].ReviewNederlands tijdschrift voor de psychologie en haar grensgebieden · 1966Levelt WJ
- Ideography in interaction.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2023Gandolfi G, Pickering MJDOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000572
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Areas of study
- History
- Origin of "psycholinguistics"
- Theories
- Language acquisition
- Language comprehension
- Reading
- Language production
- Cognition and linguistic relativity
- Methodologies
- Behavioral tasks
- Eye-movements
- Language production errors
- Neuroimaging
- Computational modeling
- Psychophysical approach
- Areas for further research
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain; that is, the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language.
Psycholinguistics is concerned with the cognitive faculties and processes that are necessary to produce the grammatical constructions of language. It is also concerned with the perception of these constructions by a listener.
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