psycholinguistics
noun
psycholinguistics is a noun meaning “The interdisciplinary field of study which concerns the acquisition, comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-I-N-G-U-I-S-T-I-C-S, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does psycholinguistics mean?
noun
- 1
The interdisciplinary field of study which concerns the acquisition, comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms, using concepts and approaches from linguistics, psychology and cognitive science.
Psycholinguistics is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain: i.e., the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, comprehend, produce and use l
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce psycholinguistics?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Knabrupt-psycholinguistics.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is psycholinguistics?
Psycholinguistics appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate psycholinguistics?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of psycholinguistics: psycholing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Psycholinguistics in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | psycholinguistique |
| German | Psycholinguistik, Sprachpsychologie |
| Portuguese | psicolinguística |
| Spanish | psicolingüística |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.