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psycholinguistics

psycholinguistics

9.1
A study of how people learn and use language in their minds
  • noun
  • /ˌsaɪkoʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
  • Specialized
translation icon : psicolingüística
  • The field of psycholinguistics explores how children learn to speak and understand their first language.
  • Applied Psycholinguistics

Philology and history of English are beneficially tightly integrated with psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.

Examples

  • Philology and history of English are beneficially tightly integrated with psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.

    Harvard University

  • Gutirrez-Clellen, V. F., & Kreiter, J. (2003). Understanding child bilingual acquisition using parent and teacher reports. Applied Psycholinguistics, 24, 267-288.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Patkowski, M. (1989). Age and accent in a second language: A reply to James Emil Flege. Applied Psycholinguistics, 11, 73-89.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Smith, B. L., McGregor, K. K., & DeMille, D. (2006). Phonological development in lexically precocious two-year-olds. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 355-375.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Pham, G., & Kohnert, K. (2010). Sentence interpretation by typically developing Vietnamese-English bilingual children. Applied Psycholinguistics, 31, 507-529. doi: 10.1017/S0142716410000093

    Academic text (2012)

  • Bortolini, U., & Leonard, L. B. (1996). Phonology and grammar morphology in specific language impairment: Accounting for individual variation in English and Italian. Applied Psycholinguistics, 17, 85-104.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Burns, T., Yoshida, K., Hill, K., & Werker, J. (2007). The development of phonetic representation in bilingual and monolingual infants. Applied Psycholinguistics, 28, 455-474.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Gutierrez-Clellen, V.F., Simon-Cereijido, G., & Wagner, C. (2008). Bilingual children with language impairment: A comparison with monolinguals and second language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics, 29, 319.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Young, A. R., Bowers, P. C., & MacKinnon, G. E. (1996). Effects of prosodic modeling and repeated reading on poor readers' fluency and comprehension. Applied Psycholinguistics, 17, 59-84.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Carlisle, J. F., Beeman, M., Davis, L. H., & Spharim, G. (1999). Relationship of metalinguistic capabilities and reading achievement for children who are becoming bilingual. Applied Psycholinguistics, 20, 459-478.

    Academic text (2011)

How Analytic

metalinguistics
  • Specialized
9.9
computational linguistics
  • Specialized
6.7
psycholinguistics
  • Specialized
9.1

Surface Forms

psycholinguistics singular
psycholinguistics plural

Morphology

psycholinguistics = linguistics (semi-transparent) = psycho + linguistics

The word is built from a recognizable prefix and a known base word, but the result names a specialized academic field rather than a fully everyday compositional meaning.

Etymology

The word psycholinguistics comes from psyche, a Greek word meaning 'mind', and lingua, a Latin word meaning 'tongue' or 'language', and you see psyche in psychology and lingua in the English word 'language'. So, psycholinguistics is the study of how the mind understands and uses language.