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psycholinguistics

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

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As he knew no Russian and nobody at the hospital spoke Hungarian, he had apparently not had a single conversation in over 50 years, a situation of great interest in the fields of psychiatry and psycholinguistics. Source: Internet

In psycholinguistics, Pinker became known early in his career for promoting computational learning theory as a way to understand language acquisition in children. Source: Internet

When the aim of computational language learning research is to understand more about human language acquisition, or psycholinguistics, NLL overlaps into the related field of computational psycholinguistics. Source: Internet

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