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The interdisciplinary field of study which concerns the acquisition, comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms, using concepts and approaches from linguistics, psychology and cognitive science.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- Psycholinguistics is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain: i.e., the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, comprehend, produce and use language.
- 2006, Nobuhiro Furuyama, 44: Language and gesture as a single communicative system, Mineharu Nakayama, Reiko Mazuka, Yasuhiro Shirai, Ping Li (editors), The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Volume 2: Japanese, Cambridge University Press, page 333, Speech-gesture research is one of the emerging fields in psycholinguistics that, by referring to speech-accompanying gestures, attempts to elucidate the underlying process in which qualitatively different types of thinking, e.g. imagistic thinking and linguistic thinking, become coordinated with one another.
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the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cognitive psychology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ) Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der. English psycho- Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵhwéh2s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English linguistics English psycholinguistics From psycho- + linguistics.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
հոգելեզվաբանություն
(hogelezvabanutʻyun)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Azerbaijani:
psixolinqvistika
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Belarusian:
псіхалінгвістыка
(psixalinhvistyka)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Chinese Cantonese:
心理語言學 /心理语言学
(sam1 lei5 jyu5 jin4 hok6)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Chinese Mandarin:
心理語言學 /心理语言学
(xīnlǐ yǔyánxué)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Czech:
psycholingvistika
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Dutch:
psycholinguïstiek
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Esperanto:
psikolingvistiko
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Estonian:
psühholingvistika
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Finnish:
psykolingvistiikka
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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French:
psycholinguistique
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Georgian:
ფსიქოლინგვისტიკა
(psikolingvisṭiḳa)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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German:
Psycholinguistik
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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German:
Sprachpsychologie
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Greek:
ψυχογλωσσολογία
(psychoglossología)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Hungarian:
pszicholingvisztika
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Italian:
psicolinguistica
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Italian:
psicologia del linguaggio
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Japanese:
心理言語学
(shinrigengogaku)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Korean:
심리언어학
(simnieoneohak)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Polish:
psycholingwistyka
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Portuguese:
psicolinguística
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Russian:
психолингви́стика
(psixolingvístika)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Slovak:
psycholingvistika
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Slovene:
psiholingvistika
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Spanish:
psicolingüística
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Swahili:
isimu nafsia
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Turkish:
psikolinguistik
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
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Ukrainian:
психолінгвістика
(psyxolinhvistyka)
— field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language
