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psycholinguistics en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ) Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der. English psycho- Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English linguistics English psycholinguistics From psycho- + linguistics.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The interdisciplinary field of study which concerns the acquisition, comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms, using concepts and approaches from linguistics, psychology and cognitive science.
    • The seeds for work on processing have their roots in early L2 research, but the psycholinguistics of SLA didn't really take off until the 1990s. 2014, Jill Jegerski, Bill VanPatten, Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page ix:
    • Psycholinguistics is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain: i.e., the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, comprehend, produce and use language.
    • Psycholinguistics began with attempts to test the empirical validity of various formal linguistic concepts. 1975, [Lawrence Erlbaum], Sam Glucksberg, Joseph H. Danks, Experimental Psycholinguistics: An Introduction, Psychology Press, published 2014, page xi:
    • 2006, Nobuhiro Furuyama, 44: Language and gesture as a single communicative system, Mineharu Nakayama, Reiko Mazuka, Yasuhiro Shirai, Ping Li (editors), The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Volume 2: Japanese, Cambridge University Press, page 333, Speech-gesture research is one of the emerging fields in psycholinguistics that, by referring to speech-accompanying gestures, attempts to elucidate the underlying process in which qualitatively different types of thinking, e.g. imagistic thinking and linguistic thinking, become coordinated with one another.

Deriveds

developmental psycholinguistics

Relateds

neurolinguistics

Synonyms

psychology of language (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language)

Translations (29)

ka ფსიქოლინგვისტიკა (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · it psicolinguistica (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · es psicolingüística (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · fi psykolingvistiikka (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · sw isimu nafsia (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · hy հոգելեզվաբանություն (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · cmn 心理語言學 /心理语言学 (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · ru психолингви́стика (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · cs psycholingvistika (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · et psühholingvistika (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · sl psiholingvistika (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · be псіхалінгвістыка (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · az psixolinqvistika (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · de Sprachpsychologie (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · ko 심리언어학 (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · yue 心理語言學 /心理语言学 (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · hu pszicholingvisztika (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · uk психолінгвістика (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · tr psikolinguistik (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · it psicologia del linguaggio (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · ja 心理言語学 (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · sk psycholingvistika (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · nl psycholinguïstiek (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · pt psicolinguística (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · fr psycholinguistique (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · el ψυχογλωσσολογία (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · pl psycholingwistyka (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · eo psikolingvistiko (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language) · de Psycholinguistik (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language)