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psycholinguistics

 

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Noun psycholinguistics has 1 sense
  1. psycholinguistics - the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance
    --1 is a kind of
    cognitive psychology

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Psycholinguistics

Noun:

  • The study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language.

Example Sentence:

Psycholinguistics investigates how infants learn to speak and how adults process language in the brain.

Adjective:

  • Related to or associated with the study of the mental processes and structures involved in language.

Example Sentence:

The psycholinguistic experiment aimed to measure language processing speed.

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