Psycholinguistic or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enables humans to acquire, use and comprehend and produce language. Psycholinguistics covers the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures as well as the processes that make it possible to understand utterances, words, texts. 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. Psycholinguistics studies many different topics, but these topics can generally be divided into answering the following questions: 1. How do people process and comprehend language? 2. How do people produce language? 3. How do adults acquire new language? Psycholinguistics is concerned with the nature of the computations and processes that the brain undergoes to comprehend and produce language. For example, the cohort model seeks to describe how words are retrieved from the mental lexicon when an individual hears or sees linguistic input. Recent research using new non-invasive imaging techniques seeks to shed light on just where certain language processes occur in the brain. There are a number of unanswered questions in psycholinguistics such as whether the human ability to use syntax is based on innate mental structures or emerges from interaction with other humans, and whether some animals can be taught the syntax of human language. Two other major subfields of psycholinguistics investigate first language acquisition, the process by which infants acquire language and second language acquisition . In addition, it is much more difficult for adults to acquire second language that it is for infants to learn their first language (bilingual infants are able to learn
Psycholinguistic or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enables humans to acquire, use and comprehend and produce language. Psycholinguistics covers the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures as well as the processes that make it possible to understand utterances, words, texts. 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. Psycholinguistics studies many different topics, but these topics can generally be divided into answering the following questions: 1. How do people process and comprehend language? 2. How do people produce language? 3. How do adults acquire new language? Psycholinguistics is concerned with the nature of the computations and processes that the brain undergoes to comprehend and produce language. For example, the cohort model seeks to describe how words are retrieved from the mental lexicon when an individual hears or sees linguistic input. Recent research using new non-invasive imaging techniques seeks to shed light on just where certain language processes occur in the brain. There are a number of unanswered questions in psycholinguistics such as whether the human ability to use syntax is based on innate mental structures or emerges from interaction with other humans, and whether some animals can be taught the syntax of human language. Two other major subfields of psycholinguistics investigate first language acquisition, the process by which infants acquire language and second language acquisition . In addition, it is much more difficult for adults to acquire second language that it is for infants to learn their first language (bilingual infants are able to learn