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psycholinguistic

psycholinguistic

1 9.3
About how the mind learns and uses language
  • adjective
  • /ˌsaɪkoʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
  • Specialized
: psicolingüístico
  • The psycholinguistic tradition framed learning problems as psychological difficulties in the mental management of spoken and written language.
  • psycholinguistic abilities
  • psycholinguistic skill
  • psycholinguistic training

Examples

  • Thus, hypothesis-driven research with children can now capitalize on the knowledge already gained from such psycholinguistic experiments with adults to begin to understand various aspects of reading development in a way that has not been possible with other methodologies.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Most psycholinguistic work on pronouns has used third-person pronouns like he and she.

    Academic text (2010)
  • GJ as a Method of Psycholinguistic Inquiry

    Academic text (2011)
  • Goodman, K. S. 1968. The psycholinguistic nature of the reading process.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Nor do the case studies address psycholinguistic properties of language processing by which to hypothesize theoretical models of language processing.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Our coursework was grounded in a sociolinguistic, sociocultural, and psycholinguistic perspective.

    Academic text (2012)
  • In his analysis of Kirk's psycholinguistic processing treatment activities, Hammill found instructional efforts to enhance the psychological activities of human communication to be fruitless.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Clarke and Silberstein (1977) derived some instructional strategies from the psycholinguistic model that focused on reading as an active process of comprehension.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Older Group R-S children exhibit substantial deficiencies in the more complex semantic-acoustic aspects of psycholinguistic skills, such as sentence memory and auditory analysis of common words.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The study explored the psycholinguistic factors that influence how children learn new languages.

Surface Forms

psycholinguistic positive

Morphology

psycholinguistic = linguistic (semi-transparent) = psycho + linguistic

The meaning is fairly clear as 'psychological' plus 'linguistic', but the term is specialized and not fully predictable for an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Psycholinguistic comes from two parts: psycho- ('mind') and linguistic from lingua ('language' or 'tongue'). So psycholinguistic relates to the study of how the mind learns and uses language.