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psycholinguistics

Word definitions for psycholinguistics in dictionaries

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Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language . Initial forays into psycholinguistics were largely philosophical or educational ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context linguistics English) The study of the comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms.

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n. the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance

Usage examples of psycholinguistics.

FBI had worked with the Psycholinguistics Center at Syracuse University since 1974, and with Dr.

Jonathan Pritchard at the Psycholinguistics Center of Syracuse University.

I felt that, if psycholinguistics theory and media theory are sciences, then speculative fiction in those disciplines must be science fiction.

His doctorate is in psychology, and he spent ten years as a professor of psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology.