Psycholinguistics

Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field, where theorizing is still largely guided by the often implicit assumption of universality. Psycholinguistics is part of the field of cognitive science, and is the study of how individuals comprehend, produce and acquire language. Psycholinguists are also interested in the social rules involved in language use, and the bra