psycholinguistics

[si″ko-ling-gwis´tiks]

the study of psychological factors involved in the development and use of language.

psy·cho·lin·guis·tics

(sī'kō-ling-gwis'tiks),

Study of a host of psychological factors associated with speech, including voice, attitudes, emotions, and grammatical rules, that affect communication and understanding of language.

[psycho- + L. lingua, tongue]

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psycholinguistics

(sī′kō-lĭng-gwĭs′tĭks)

n. (used with a sing. verb)

The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.

psy′cho·lin′guist n.

psy′cho·lin·guis′tic adj.

psycholinguistics

Psychology The study of factors affecting activities of communicating and understanding verbal information; the study of the manner in which language is acquired, stored, integrated and retrieved. See Kinesics, Language.

psy·cho·lin·guis·tics

(sī'kō-ling-gwis'tiks)

Study of a host of psychological factors associated with speech, including voice, attitudes, emotions, and grammatical rules, which affect communication and understanding of language.

[psycho- + L. lingua, tongue]

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psy·cho·lin·guis·tics

(sī'kō-ling-gwis'tiks)

Study of psychological factors associated with speech, including voice, attitudes, emotions, and grammatical rules.

[psycho- + L. lingua, tongue]

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Biolinguistics, the Minimalist Program, and psycholinguistic reality.

Against a non-process-based definition of competence

L2 collocational competence has also been the object of many psycholinguistic studies, including methodologies such as eye-tracking, tests of memory, or priming.

Learning and Teaching L2 Collocations: Insights from Research

The general idea of using K-means clustering to select matched stimuli for factorial designs in psycholinguistic studies is simple.

Clustering words to match conditions: An algorithm for stimuli selection in factorial designs/Agrupar palabras para igualar condiciones: Un algoritmo para la seleccion de palabras en disenos factoriales

Overall, since research on formulaic language processing and storage is still at an early stage, more psycholinguistic work is needed in order to draw valid conclusions.

Fundamentals of formulaic language: An introduction

Finally, we administered the Visual and Hearing Association subtests of the ITPA (Cronbach's alpha between .75 and .91) to check the degree of knowledge of conceptual relationships (semantic psycholinguistic processes); results showed a mean psycholinguistic age far below the chronological age.

Intervention in reading processes in pupils with specific language impairment (SLI)/Intervencion en procesos lectores en alumnado con trastorno especifico del lenguaje (TEL)

His findings revealed the fact that Turkish students use meta cognitive strategies more fondly and efficiently than psycholinguistic strategies.

Differences in the Use of English Vocabulary Learning Strategies at Higher Secondary Level

"Inside in and on: Typological and Psycholinguistic Perspectives." In Language, Cognition and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions, edited by Vyvyan Evans and Paul Chilton, 95-114.

Ana Rojo and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano, eds. 2013. Cognitive Linguistics and Translation. Advances in Some Theoretical Models and Applications

This will be determined by the psycholinguistic characteristics of the word (Capovilla, Macedo, & Charin, 2002), which is related to its regularity, lexicality, frequency and length.

Adaptation of the word subtest of the Reading Decision Test (RDT) for Brazilian Portuguese/Adaptacao do subteste de leitura do Reading Decision Test (RDT) para o Portugues Brasileiro

Spalding) is focused on a few methodological aspects of psycholinguistic inquiry, arguing that psycholinguistic research generally adopts a scientific strategy that assumes a relatively stable set of representations and processes.

Introduction to special issue

In addition to being able to predict consumer trends and analyze consumer media consumption patterns, emerging AI technology even has the ability to discern consumers' personalities through psycholinguistic analysis of the language consumers use when posting on social media sites and predict major events that are likely to happen in a consumer's life.

Artificial intelligence: marketing implications & applications

(118) Psycholinguistic researchers have categorized these causes of juror miscomprehension as those relating to the vocabulary used and those relating to the grammar or sentence structure--in other words, how the "particular words are arranged into phrases, clauses and entire sentences." (119)

12 confused men: using flowchart verdict sheets to mitigate inconsistent civil verdicts