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Introduction to Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is the study of psychological and neurobiological factors that enable human to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Psycholinguistics covers the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures, as well as the processes make it possible to understand utterances, words, text, etc. developmental psycholinguistics studies children’s ability to learn language.
Psycholinguistics is the study of how humans learn language. Psycholinguistics includes the study of speech perception, the role of memory, concepts and other processes in language use, and how social and psychological factors affect the use of language.[1] Psycholinguistics is interdisciplinary and is studied by people in a variety of fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, and linguistics. There are several subdivisions within psycholinguistics that are based on the components that make up human language.
All of us have language. But how did we learn to produce and understand speech? At birth we cannot speak, nor can we understand speech. It is one of the fundamental task of field of psycholinguistics to explain how all this has occurred.


[1] Richards. 1992. Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, pg. 433

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