Psycholinguistics is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. It investigates the three primary processes of language comprehension, language production, and language acquisition. Psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive science that draws from fields like psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and computer science to understand how humans perceive, learn, and produce language.

1. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS.

2. Introduction
Psycholinguistics: what happens
in our mind when we use
language.

3. What is psycholinguistics?
Psychological processing of language
Part of cognitive science
Input from neuroscience, informatics and linguistics
Why is this interesting/important?
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the continent, a part of the main.”
John Donne, Meditation XVII

4. Practical Reasons psycholinguistics
 Education: Teach or learn a language
 Engineering: Create machines that can process
language the way humans do
 Other Reasons?

5. DIFINITION
The study of the mental faculties involved
in the perception ,and acquisition of
language.
The study of the relationships between
linguistic behavior and psychological
processes, including the process of
language acquisition.

6. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS.
Psycholinguistics or psychology of
language is the study of the
psychological and neurobiological
factors that enable humans to acquire
,use, and understand language.

7. The three primary processes
investigated in psycholinguistics.
Language comprehension.
Language production.
Language acquisition.

8. LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION.
Understanding what other people say and
write is more complicated than it might at
first appear.
Comprehending language involves a variety
of capacities, skills, processes, knowledge,
and disposition that are used to derive
meaning from spoken, written and sign
language.

9. LANGUAGE PRODUCTION.
Language production is the production
of spoken or written language.it
describe all of the stages between
having a concept into linguistic form.

10. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Language acquisition is just one strand
of psycholinguistics which is all about
how people learn to speak and the
mental processes involved.

11. Psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive
science.
 Psychology.
 Neuroscience.
 Computer science.
 Anthropology.
 Linguistics.

12. Cognitive Science and its Components
Psychometrics
Experimental psychology
psycholinguistics
Computational linguistics
Artificial intelligence
Epistemology
Logic
Anthropology
Decision theory
Psychology
Linguistics
Computer science
Philosophy
Neuroscience
Other fields
Cognitive
Science

13. Current Directions
Psycholinguistics is increasingly viewed as a
portion of the interdisciplinary field of
cognitive science.
Shift of the interest in syntax to other
aspects of language: discourse, lexicon.

14. Conclusion
Psycholinguistics is an area of study
which draws from linguistics and
psychology and focuses upon the
comprehension and production of
language.

15. Final facts
 6,912 known living languages in the world
 896,190 words in English (correct as of yesterday)
 Mandarin has 1,075,000,000 speakers
 Most popular word is ‘ok’
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy”
Goethe