psycholinguist

Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and other aspects of mind and brain. The discipline is mainly concerned with the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms that enable humans to learn, comprehend, and produce language. Psycholinguistics is concerned with the cognitive faculties and processes that are necessary to produce the grammatical constructions of language. It is also concerned with the perception of these constructions by a listener. Initial forays into psycholinguistics were in the philosophical and educational fields, mainly due to their location in departments other than applied sciences (e.g., cohesive data on how the human brain functioned). Modern research makes use of biology, neuroscience, cognitive s...