PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language or Psycholinguists study how word meaning, sentence meaning, and discourse meaning are computed and represented in the mind. Psycholinguistics is a branch of study which combines the disciplines of psychology and linguistics. it is concerned with the relationship between the human mind and the language as it examines the processes that occur in brain while producing and perceiving both written and spoken discourse. They study how complex words and sentences are composed in speech and how they are broken down into their constituents in the acts of listening and reading. In short, psycholinguists seek to understand how language is done. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms in which languages are processed and represented in the brain. Psycholinguistics has roots in edu...
