Psycholinguistics: A Brief Note
Psycholinguistics is the study of the connection between language and mind. It began to emerge as a distinct discipline in the 1950s. To some extent, its emergence was promoted by the insistence at the time of the linguist Noam Chomsky that linguistics should be regarded as a part of cognitive psychology, but there were other factors as well, notably the growing interest in the question of language acquisition by children.==============================
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There is no doubt that the study of acquisition has so far been the most prominent and successful area of psycholinguistics. But, a number of other topics have also been explored, with varying degrees of success. Many of these are aspects of language processing, the steps involved in producing and comprehending speech. Others include the links between language use and memory, the linguistic examination of reading, and more recently possible links with perception and cognition.
Psycholinguistics would also like to link their findings to those of neurolinguistics, the study of language and brain, but this has not proved at all easy. Some psycholinguists are also contributing to the development of cognitive linguistics and of cognitive science generally.
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