psycholinguistics

Language serves a central role in our daily lives Linguistics

the scientific study of language.

Psychology
The study of human behavior and cognition (i.e.,

how we think). Study of human mind

Human mind

You phoned your lecturer about the grading yesterday?

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Make out the sound Break them out into words Assign meaning Who said the sentence? To whom he/she said it Grading, yesterday Intonation

Psycholinguistics is primarily a sub-discipline of psychology and linguistics, but it is also related to developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, neurolinguistics, and speech science.

Eva Fernandez & Helen Cairn Fundamental of Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is the study of mental mechanism that make it possible for people to use language.
Alan Garnham - Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is the use of language and speech as a window to the nature and structure of the human mind.
Thomas Scovel - Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study in which the goals are to understand how people acquire language, how people use language to speak and understand one another, and how language is represented and processed in the brain.
Eva Fernandez & Helen Cairn Fundamental of

Psycholinguistics

Scope acquire, product, comprehend,

Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
As You Like it by Shakespeare

Psycholinguistics sub-field
How are language and speech acquired? How are language and speech produced?

How are language and speech comprehended?

How are language and speech lost?

Psycholinguistics
Language acquisition Language production

Language comprehension
Language attrition