psycholinguistics
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noun
the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance
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Psycholinguistics began with attempts to test the empirical validity of various formal linguistic concepts.
The seeds for work on processing have their roots in early L2 research, but the psycholinguistics of SLA didn't really take off until the 1990s.
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