psycholinguists
Study language cognition
Psycholinguists are researchers who study the mental processes underlying language—how people acquire, produce, comprehend, and store words and sentences.
The field sits at the intersection of psychology and linguistics, investigating questions like how children learn grammar or how the brain retrieves words during speech: Psycholinguists have shown that we begin processing a word before the speaker finishes saying it.
Rules for arranging words
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- pragmaticsLanguage-in-context study
lexicon · grammar · phonetics · prosody · discourse · intonation · stress · articulation
Neurological language impairment
- lateralizationLocalization to one side
- cortexOrgan's external tissue
- fMRIMagnetic neural activity imaging
- ERPIntegrated business management software
Tests of a hypothesis
- primingMaking ready beforehand
- elicitationDrawing forth information
- neuroimagingVisualizing nervous system structure
- cross-sectionalCut through perpendicularly
variables · stimuli · coding · replication · publication
Grammatical structure extraction
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- productionMaking or generating something
- readingInterpreting written text
- primingMaking ready beforehand
Incoherent or infantile speech
- overgeneralizationUnwarranted broad application
- overextensionExceeding sustainable capacity
- inputData received for processing
- outputWhat something generates
syntax
Rules for arranging words
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
pragmatics · lexicon · grammar · phonetics · prosody · discourse · intonation · stress · articulation · word-formation
aphasia
Neurological language impairment
- lateralizationLocalization to one side
- cortexOrgan's external tissue
- fMRIMagnetic neural activity imaging
ERP · dyslexia · anomia · neuroplasticity
experiments
Tests of a hypothesis
- primingMaking ready beforehand
- elicitationDrawing forth information
- neuroimagingVisualizing nervous system structure
cross-sectional · variables · stimuli · coding · replication · publication
parsing
Grammatical structure extraction
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- productionMaking or generating something
- readingInterpreting written text
priming · garden-path · activation · retrieval · interference
babbling
Incoherent or infantile speech
- overgeneralizationUnwarranted broad application
- overextensionExceeding sustainable capacity
- inputData received for processing
output · imitation · comprehension · production · motherese
psycholinguistsneurosurgeons
Doctors operating on brains
brain surgeons · neurologists · psychiatrists · physiologists
psycholinguistsspeech therapists
Clinicians treating communication disorders