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date: 27 March 2025

psycholinguistics 

Source:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
Author(s):

P. H. Matthews

Any study of language in or from the viewpoint of psychology. Seen in the 1960s as including two main subfields: the empirical study of the development of language in children (‘developmental psycholinguistics’); and the investigation through experiments of the psychological mechanisms for the production and understanding of speech (‘experimental psycholinguistics’).... ...

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