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Psycholinguistics is the multidisciplinary study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. It examines topics like how people understand spoken and written language through comprehension, how speech is produced, how language is acquired, the biological and neurological bases of communicative behavior, and language disorders. Psycholinguistics draws on expertise from fields like neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, and computer science to better understand the relationship between language and the mind.

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Psycholinguistics 2

Psycholinguistics is the multidisciplinary study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. It examines topics like how people understand spoken and written language through comprehension, how speech is produced, how language is acquired, the biological and neurological bases of communicative behavior, and language disorders. Psycholinguistics draws on expertise from fields like neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, and computer science to better understand the relationship between language and the mind.

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Psycholinguistics

The study of psychological and neurobiological factors and enables humans to


acquire, use, comprehend and produce language.
The scope of psycholinguistics

Comprehension Speech Production Acquisition

How people understand How people produce language How people learn language.
spoken and written language.

The Biological and


Neurological

Bases of human
communicative behavior
The Brain and Language Processing
Broca's Area Wernicke's Area Arcuate Fasciculus

Broca's area is a part of the A region important for A neural pathway


human brain located in the understanding the connecting Broca's and
inferior frontal gyrus meaning of words and Wernicke's areas.
sentences.
Language Disorders and Communication

Aphasia Dyslexia Autism Spectrum


Disorder
A language disorder that A learning disability that
affects a person's ability to impacts reading and language A developmental disorder that
communicate. processing. affects communication and
social interaction.
In Conclusion
A Multidisciplinary Science

Psycholinguistics is a field that draws on


expertise from neuroscience, linguistics,
psychology, and computer science.

1 2 3

The Power of Language Lots More to Explore

Language is a core aspect of human cognition There is still much we can learn about
and affects our lives in countless ways. language and the brain, and the implications
of that research can be far-reaching.
key figures
1 Garnham 2 Noam Chomsky

Psycholinguistics is the study Psycholinguistics is the study


of a mental mechanisms that of the interrelation between
nake it possible for people to language factors and mental
use language. It is a scientific and emotional qualities.
discipline whose goal is a
coherent theory of the way in
which language is
produce and understood.

3 Jean Aitchison

The study of language and mind.


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