PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psycholinguistics mean? 

• PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOLINGUISTICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS used as a noun is very rare.

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• PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (noun)

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Meaning:

The branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("psycholinguistics" is a kind of...):

cognitive psychology (an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes)

Derivation:

psycholinguist (a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language)

psycholinguistic (of or relating to the psychology of language)