Psychiatry and Psychology

Psycholinguistics

A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them; it deals directly with the processes of encoding (phonetics) and decoding (psychoacoustics) as they relate states of messages to states of communicators.

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Abstract

A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them; it deals directly with the processes of encoding (phonetics) and decoding (psychoacoustics) as they relate states of messages to states of communicators.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Psycholinguistic

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

coordinate with specific linguistic & psychological concepts

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67

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Previous Indexing

  • Language (1966)

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  1. F02w.694w
  2. F04.096w.586w
  3. L01w.559w.598w.628w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Psycholinguistics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011578. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011578
  2. Psycholinguistics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycholinguistics
  3. Psycholinguistics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179488