Occupation or Discipline
psycholinguistics Audio
psy·cho·lin·guis·tics [ sahy-koh-ling-gwis-tiks ]
Subclass of:
Psychological Phenomena; Behavioral Sciences; Linguistics
Definitions related to psycholinguistics:
  • A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them; it deals directly with the processes of encoding (phonetics) and decoding (psychoacoustics) as they relate states of messages to states of communicators.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Branch of linguistics concerned with the relationships between messages and the psychological characteristics of those who select or interpret them.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Psycholinguistics, the study of psychological aspects of language. Experiments investigating such topics as short-term and long-term memory, perceptual strategies, and speech perception based on linguistic models are part of this discipline. Most work in psycholinguistics has been done on the...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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