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Linguistics Third Year Chapter Two: Psycholinguistics Group 06

Psycholinguistics is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. It uses techniques from various fields like neuroscience, cognitive science, and linguistics to understand how the brain processes language. Key areas of study include how children acquire language, how people process and understand language, how people produce language, and how adults learn a second language. It also examines how the brain processes different components of language like speech sounds, word structures, sentence patterns, and meaning.

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Linguistics Third Year Chapter Two: Psycholinguistics Group 06

Psycholinguistics is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. It uses techniques from various fields like neuroscience, cognitive science, and linguistics to understand how the brain processes language. Key areas of study include how children acquire language, how people process and understand language, how people produce language, and how adults learn a second language. It also examines how the brain processes different components of language like speech sounds, word structures, sentence patterns, and meaning.

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Linguistics

Third Year Chapter Two: Psycholinguistics


Group 06

Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological


factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Initial forays into
psycholinguistics were largely philosophical ventures, due mainly to a lack of cohesive data on how the human
brain functioned. Modern research makes use of biology, neuroscience, cognitive
science, linguistics, and information theory to study how the brain processes language. There are a number of
subdisciplines with non-invasive techniques for studying the neurological workings of the brain; for
example, neurolinguistics has become a field in its own right.

Psycholinguistics covers the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate agrammatical and
meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures, as well as the processes that make it
possible to understand utterances, words, text, etc. Developmental psycholinguistics studies children's ability
to learn language.

Areas of study
Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field. Hence, it is studied by researchers from a variety of different
backgrounds, such as psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, and speech and language
pathology. Psycholinguists study many different topics, but these topics can generally be divided into answering
the following questions: (1) how do children acquire language (language acquisition)?; (2) how do people process
and comprehend language (language comprehension)?; (3) how do people produce language (language
production)?; and (4) how do adults acquire a new language(second language acquisition)?Subdivisions in
psycholinguistics are also made based on the different components that make up human language. Linguistics-
related areas:

 Phonetics and phonology are concerned with the study of speech sounds. Within psycholinguistics,
research focuses on how the brain processes and understands these sounds.

 Morphology is the study of word structures, especially the relationships between related words (such
as dog and dogs) and the formation of words based on rules (such as plural formation).

 Syntaxis the study of the patterns which dictate how words are combined to form sentences.

 Semantics deals with the meaning of words and sentences. Where syntax is concerned with the
formal structure of sentences, semantics deals with the actual meaning of sentences.

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