psycholinguistic
1 of 1adjective/ˌsaɪkoʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
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relating to the study of how the mind processes language, combining psychology and linguistics
- Psycholinguistic studies investigate how children acquire language skills and develop linguistic competence.
- Eye-tracking experiments are commonly used in psycholinguistic research to analyze reading patterns and comprehension strategies.
- Psycholinguistic theories seek to explain how language is represented and processed in the brain.
- Aphasia, a language disorder caused by brain injury, provides valuable insights into psycholinguistic phenomena.
- Computational models of language processing draw on psycholinguistic principles to simulate human-like language comprehension.