psycholinguistics
Noun
Meaning
the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance
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Hypernyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
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.
In psycholinguistics, Pinker became known early in his career for promoting computational learning theory as a way to understand language acquisition in children.
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.