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psycholinˈguistic, a. and n.
[f. psycho- + linguistic a. and n.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to psycholinguistics (see sense B below).
1936J. Kantor Objective Psychol. of Grammar iv. 55 (heading) The psycholinguistic situation analyzed. 1948Mind LVII. 531 The psycholinguistic point of view does not allow one to answer a question such as ‘What is a number?’ without having ascertained first the purpose of the question. 1953J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. iv. 120 Psycholinguistic analysis might suggest the units of selection in messages and better ways of gauging their semantic content. 1959Schuell & Jenkins in L. F. Sies Aphasia Theory & Therapy (1974) xi. 212 Osgood (1953) has presented a psycholinguistic model for aphasia..; the model was constructed and deficits which should result from interruptions of psycholinguistic rather than neurological processes were deduced. 1967D. G. Hays Introd. Computational Linguistics xi. 187 Psycholinguistic evidence is now regarded as relevant to decisions about syntax. 1970Language XLVI. 87 It was evident that the phonemes as analysed did indeed match the psycholinguistic units that the subject was manipulating in the use of his own language. 1977P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching of Eng. ii. 32 Modern psycho⁓linguistic studies of the way a small child learns his mother tongue.
B. n. pl. (const. as sing.). The branch of linguistics which deals with the interrelation between the acquisition, use, and comprehension of language, and the processes of the mind. Cf. linguistic psychology s.v. linguistic a. b.
1936Allport & Odbert Psychol. Monogr. XLVII. i. 25 From the standpoints of the psychology of personality and psycho-linguistics the complete record is of more value. 1948Mind LVII. 530 Psycho-linguistics.., a term which is intended to cover the spoken and written word, as well as gestures and such physical actions as are used by human being[s] to influence each other's activities. It also studies the associations which relate such acts with the mental processes which occur in the minds of the parties concerned. 1952Language XXVIII. i. 115 Psycholinguistics is not linguistics plus psychology; it is a resultant of the two. 1959Word XV. 192 Psycholinguistics is a relatively new discipline developing along the border between linguistics and psychology. 1967S. Saporta Psycholinguistic Theories & Generative Grammars 7 Let us understand the central question in psycholinguistics to be the study of whatever psychological processes contribute to the acquisition, production, and comprehension of language. 1974P. Dickinson Poison Oracle ii. 36 My field is psycholinguistics... The study of the effect of language on the mind. 1978English Jrnl. Dec. 63/2 The findings of social linguistics and psycholinguistics are presented in terms meaningful to the younger reader.
Hence psychoˈlinguist, a student of or specialist in psycholinguistics; psycholinˈguistically adv.; ˌpsycholinguiˈstician rare = psycholinguist.
1953J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. iv. 121 It is also possible that the mass statistics..will provide the psycholinguist with a rewarding set of material for study. 1964Language XL. 226 The problem of isolating the psycho⁓linguistically distinctive units of sequential encoding..has elicited some interesting experiments with pausal phenomena. 1970New Scientist 24 Sept. 615/1 It is a widely held view among psycholinguists..that phonology and syntax are unique to man. 1975M. Bradbury History Man vi. 106 Do you mean am I a structuralist or a Leavisite or a psycho-linguistician or a formalist or a Christian existentialist or a phenomenologist? 1976Amer. Speech 1974 XLIX. 80 We can answer it psycho⁓linguistically by claiming that two items are collocates of each other if they belong to a single remembered set. 1977Verbatim Dec. 1/1 The psycholinguists working with infants by and large ignored the obvious; eye contact and touch between mother and child. |