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Question 1

What is psycholinguistics? What does it deal with? Who introduced the term?

Answer 1

Psycholinguistics is an interdisclipinary field, a branch of both linguistics and psychology. The term was introduced by Jacob Robert Kantor in his 1936 book “An Objective Psychology of Grammar”. Kantor’s student, Nicholas Henry Pronko, played a significant role in popularising the field.
It’s the study of the psychological aspects of language, including how language is processed and represented in the mind and brain; the study of language in relation to psychological processes (such as memory, attention, etc.). What psychological and neurobiological factors enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language.

Question 2

Name the areas of study in psycholinguistics and main experiments!

Answer 2

It studies how people acquire and use language according to the following areas:
1) language acquisition
2) language comprehension
3) language production
4) second language acquistion
- experiments: short term and long term memory, perceptual strategies, speech perception based on linguistic models…