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psycholinguistics

🇬🇧 UK/,saikәuliŋ'^wistiks/🇺🇸 US
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Definitions

n.

The interdisciplinary study of how humans acquire, comprehend, and produce language.

心理语言学

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
psychoself
+
linguistlanguage, tongue
+
icsrelating to, having the nature of
=psycholinguistics

Common Collocations

  • 1.applied psycholinguistics应用心理语言学
  • 2.psycholinguistics research心理语言学研究
  • 3.[psycholinguistics experiment]心理语言学实验
  • 4.cognitive psycholinguistics认知心理语言学

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    Psycholinguistics examines how children effortlessly acquire complex grammatical rules.

  • 2.

    Her research in psycholinguistics focuses on how the brain processes metaphors.

  • 3.

    Psycholinguistics draws on both cognitive psychology and formal linguistics.

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