Psycholinguistics is the study of mental aspects of language and speech. It is a branch of psychology and linguistics.
"Psycholinguists study how word meaning, sentence meaning, and discourse meaning are computed and represented in the mind. They study how complex words and sentences are composed in speech and how they are broken down into their constituents in the acts of listening and reading"
In short, psycholinguists seek to understand how language is done.
In general, psycholinguistic studies have revealed that many of the concepts employed in the analysis of sound structure, word structure, and sentence structure also play a role in language processing.
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