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Psycholinguistics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance wordnet

Etymology

From psycho- + linguistics.

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