psycholinguistics: the study of language and communication as related to the individuals who use language. linguists analyze all languages into elementary sounds called phonemes. the smallest meaningful linguistic units are morphemes. these include words, prefixes, and suffixes. psycholinguists study things like how language determines thought, whether language and thought can develop independently, and to what extent animals can utilize language.
2006-07-06 13:56:47
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answered by Anonymous
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Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. Initial forays into psycholinguistics were largely philosophical ventures, due mainly to a lack of cohesive data on how the human brain functioned. Modern research makes use of biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and information theory to study how the brain processes language. There are a number of subdisciplines; for example, as non-invasive techniques to study the neurological workings of the brain become more and more used, neurolinguistics has become a field of its own.
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 that make it possible to understand utterances, words, text, etc. Developmental psycholinguistics studies infants' and children's ability to learn language, usually with experimental or at least quantitative methods (as opposed to naturalistic observations such as those made by Jean Piaget in his research on the development of children).
2006-07-06 20:38:37
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answered by penpallermel 6
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the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language.
2006-07-06 20:40:15
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answered by igɳo★ 3
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from the name it sounds like the aspects of language in psychology.
2006-07-06 20:37:19
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answered by Rx 4
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