Crossword clues for psycholinguistics
Wiktionary
n. (context linguistics English) The study of the comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms.
WordNet
n. the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance
Wikipedia
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 schools of thought, due mainly to their location in departments other than applied sciences (e.g., cohesive data on how the human brain functioned). Modern research makes use of biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, and information science to study how the brain processes language, and less so the known processes of social sciences, human development, communication theories and infant development, among others. There are a number of subdisciplines with non-invasive techniques for studying the neurological workings of the brain; for example, neurolinguistics has become a field in its own right.
Psycholinguistics has roots in education and philosophy, and covers the "cognitive processes" that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures, as well as the processes that make it possible to understand utterances, words, text, etc. Developmental psycholinguistics studies children's ability to learn language.
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.