The study of the comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms
the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance
An interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on how individuals acquire and use language It includes information from many branches of psychology, sociology and linguistics
Study of the mental processes involved in the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. Much psycholinguistic work has been devoted to the learning of language by children and on speech processing and comprehension by both children and adults. Traditional areas of research include language production, language comprehension, language acquisition, language disorders, language and thought, and neurocognition. See also linguistics
The study of how language is understood and interpreted and how and why the individual responds to discrete aspects of language