Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.
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- noun linguistics The
study of thecomprehension andproduction oflanguage in itsspoken ,written andsigned forms.
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- noun the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance
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Examples
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That is to say, Jackendoff attempts to map on to the concept of Universal Grammar findings in psycholinguistics regarding language processing and memory, and even goes so far to show how the UG may have evolved.
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Mind you I did have the unfair advantage of learning to read before my parents and teachers had heard of phonics, synthetic phonics "psycholinguistics", look and say, language experience method or context support method.
Children to read by six - Tories Not a sheep 2007
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Number Six is all about the subtextual warfare, Pinterian psycholinguistics, a constant probing in the undercurrents of even the most banal niceties.
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J -- as a psycholinguist, I flatter myself in knowing something about psycholinguistics.
1/3 of Americans can't speak? GamesWithWords 2010
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There of course many good papers not on the list below; I focused largely on the psycholinguistics articles.
Archive 2010-06-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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So too, for traditional philosophy as well as for psycholinguistics: Where being speaks, there there is absence.
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I came from an adult psycholinguistics background and so I hadn't ever read any of her developmental papers.
Archive 2010-05-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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Why this is the case has been a focus of study in psycholinguistics for many years.
Archive 2010-06-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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I came from an adult psycholinguistics background and so I hadn't ever read any of her developmental papers.
Academics on the Web GamesWithWords 2010
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Why this is the case has been a focus of study in psycholinguistics for many years.
Cognitive Science, January 2010 GamesWithWords 2010
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