Psycholinguistics

Definition: Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Noun

1. The branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance.

Specialty Definition: Psycholinguistics

Domain	Definition
Health	A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them; it deals directly with the processes of encoding (phonetics) and decoding (psychoacoustics) as they relate states of messages to states of communicators. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics or Linguistics of psychology is the study of the psychological and neurological factors that enable humans to acquire, use and understand language.

It analyses the processes that make it possible to form a correct sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures. This process is called codification. Psycholinguistics also studies the factors that account for decodification, i.e., the psychological structures that allow us to understand utterances, words, sentences, texts etc.

To give an example, one field of research deals with questions like 'How do people learn a second language?' and 'How do children learn their native language?'. According to Noam Chomsky and his supporters, humans have an innate universal grammar (i.e., an abstract concept containing the grammatical rules of all world languages). Opponents of this view claim that language is learned only through social contact. However, it is scientifically proven that every healthy human being has the innate ability to learn many languages, as many as one is exposed to for a long enough period of time. This period of time lengthens considerably after the onset of puberty, so that children can learn any language fairly rapidly wheareas adults may require years to learn a second or third language. It also seems to be the case that the more languages one knows, the easier it is to learn more.

Another aspect of psycholinguistics involves studying individual use of language to understand the mental processes of the individual, a potentially useful tool for psychologists.

Commercial Usage: Psycholinguistics

Domain	Title
Books	Connectionist Psycholinguistics (reference) Handbook of Psycholinguistics (reference) Linguistic Structure in Language Processing (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Vol 7) (reference) Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Vol 8) (reference) The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax: The L1/L2 Connection (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, V. 31) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Psycholinguistics

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		These studies should be longitudinal and reflect current theoretical and empirical advances in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Psycholinguistics

"Psycholinguistics" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 52.17% of the time. "Psycholinguistics" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Psycholinguistics

Modern Translation: Psycholinguistics

Language		Translations for "psycholinguistics"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		психолингвистика. (various references)

Chinese		心理语言学. (various references)

Danish		psykolingvistik. (various references)

Dutch		psycholinguïstiek, taalpsychologie. (various references)

French		psycholinguistique. (various references)

German		Psycholinguistik. (various references)

Italian		psicolinguistica. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		言語心理学 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�'�"�"し�"りがく. (various references)

Pig Latin		ycholinguisticspsay

Portuguese		psicolinguística. (various references)

Spanish		psicolingüística. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Psycholinguistics

Anagrams: Psycholinguistics

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-g-h-i-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-s-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: psycholinguistic.
	-2 letters: psycholinguists.
	-3 letters: psycholinguist.
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	52.17%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	39.13%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	8.7%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

Expression	Frequency per Day
psycholinguistics	44
applied psycholinguistics	2
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Psycholinguistics

Definition: Psycholinguistics