A field focused on the psychological study of language. The goal is to study the psychological processes. Its four major concerns are: 
- Comprehension
- Speech production
- Representation
- Acquisition


Psycholinguistics

Studies the effect of all aspects of society, such as how language is used or the effect of society on language. 

Sociolinguistics

The study of how language is represented in the brain, including where the brain stores knowledge of languages, and what happens when we learn and use it. 

Neurolinguistics 

- Computational
- Psycholinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Semiotics
- Syntax
- Pragmatics
- Semantics
- Applied linguistics
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The study of language. Topics include language form, meaning, context and social, cultural and historical influences.

Linguistics

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

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Sub-fields of linguistics

-  Menn, L. (2022). Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved February 6, 2022, from https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/neurolinguistics#:~:text=Neurolinguistics%20is%20the%20study%20of,it%20in%20our%20everyday%20lives. 

References of Linguistics 

An ancient human tradition found everywhere in the world. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung as a way of remembering history, genealogy, and law.

Oral Literature/ Oral Tradition 

Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration in Mesopotamia allowed writing to become a dependable method of recording transactions. Although, in both ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica, "writing may have already emerged because of the need to record historical and environmental events." 

The History of Writing

Language is a formal system of communication that is structured by a set of rules, known as grammar, and utilizes a vocabulary of words, referred to as a lexicon.

Language

Code-switching, within the disciplines of linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP), is the phenomenon where a speaker or text alternates between two or more distinct languages during a single communication or document. A common example of this practice is a mixed-language sentence that seamlessly combines vocabulary from both English and Chinese.

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