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    Psycholinguistics is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. It uses techniques from various fields like neuroscience, cognitive science, and linguistics to understand how the brain processes language. Key areas of study include how children acquire language, how people process and understand language, how people produce language, and how adults learn a second language. It also examines how the brain processes different components of language like speech sounds, word structures, sentence patterns, and meaning.

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    Psycholinguistics is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. It uses techniques from various fields like neuroscience, cognitive science, and linguistics to understand how the brain processes language. Key areas of study include how children acquire language, how people process and understand language, how people produce language, and how adults learn a second language. It also examines how the brain processes different components of language like speech sounds, word structures, sentence patterns, and meaning.

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    Linguistics

    Third Year Chapter Two: Psycholinguistics


    Group 06

    Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological


    factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce 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, linguistics, and information theory to study how the brain processes language. There are a number of
    subdisciplines with non-invasive techniques for studying the neurological workings of the brain; for
    example, neurolinguistics has become a field in its own right.

    Psycholinguistics covers the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate agrammatical 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 children's ability
    to learn language.

    Areas of study
    Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field. Hence, it is studied by researchers from a variety of different
    backgrounds, such as psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, and speech and language
    pathology. Psycholinguists study many different topics, but these topics can generally be divided into answering
    the following questions: (1) how do children acquire language (language acquisition)?; (2) how do people process
    and comprehend language (language comprehension)?; (3) how do people produce language (language
    production)?; and (4) how do adults acquire a new language(second language acquisition)?Subdivisions in
    psycholinguistics are also made based on the different components that make up human language. Linguistics-
    related areas:

     Phonetics and phonology are concerned with the study of speech sounds. Within psycholinguistics,
    research focuses on how the brain processes and understands these sounds.

     Morphology is the study of word structures, especially the relationships between related words (such
    as dog and dogs) and the formation of words based on rules (such as plural formation).

     Syntaxis the study of the patterns which dictate how words are combined to form sentences.

     Semantics deals with the meaning of words and sentences. Where syntax is concerned with the
    formal structure of sentences, semantics deals with the actual meaning of sentences.

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