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Psycholinguistics

“How does language work in the mind ?”

"How does language relate to one’s though pattern ?"

"How does language relate to one’s personality ?"

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See also . . .

• Applied
• Dialectology
• Historical
• Kinesics / Proxemics
• Sociolinguistics
• Structural

• Science Weekly podcast: Daniel Everett on language [Science Weekly podcast ] -- Daniel Everett, The Guardian (08 April 2012)
  
  
• Speakers of a Tone Language Show Improved Pitch Perception -- EurekAlert (11 April 2012)
  
  
• Baboons recognise words on a screen -- BBC News (12 April 2012)
  
  
• Bilingual Children Switch Tasks Faster Than Speakers of a Single Language -- EurekAlert (03 April 2012)
  
  
• How Immersion Helps to Learn a Language -- New York Times (02 April 2012)
  
  
• Brain's Involvement in Processing Depends on Language's Graphic Symbols -- EurekAlert (21 March 2012)
  
  
• Are Some Brains Better at Learning Languages? -- Discovery News (19 March 2012)
  
  
• Why Bilinguals Are Smarter -- New York Times (17 March 2012)
  
  
• QWERTY effect: How typing may shape meaning of words -- NewScientist (08 March 2012)
  
  
• Through the Language Glass: Does the language you speak affect or reflect how you perceive and think about the world? [Book Review] -- Guardian (06 March 2012)
  
  
• Gendered Grammar Linked to Global Sexism -- LiveScience (21 February 2012)
  • Countries with the Most and Least Gender Equality -- LiveScience (21 February 2012)
    
    
• English Is an Optimistic Language, Study Suggests -- LiveScience (23 January 2012)
  
  
• The Advantage of Ambiguity in Language -- EurekAlert (19 January 2012)
  
  
• Gossip Can Have Social and Psychological Benefits-- EurekAlert (17 January 2012)
  
  
• We May Be Less Happy, But Our Language Isn't -- EurekAlert (12 January 2012)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Consider Their Audience When Communicating -- BBC News (29 December 2011)
  
  
• Do Thoughts Have a Language of Their Own? -- NewScientist (12 December 2011)
  
  
• Vowels Control Your Brain -- NPR (08 December 2011)
  
  
• Chimp Brains May Be Hard-Wired to Evolve Language -- NewScientist (12 December 2011)
  
  
• Study Finds the Key to Language: How Humans Form Sentences -- LiveScience (29 November 2011)
  
  
• Baby Apes' Arm Waving Hints at Origins of Language -- NewScientist (10 November 2011)
  
  
• Big, Little, Tall and Tiny: Words That Promote Important Spatial Skills -- EurekAlert (09 November 2011)
  
  
• Learning spatial terms improves children's spatial skills-- EurekAlert (09 November 2011)
  
  
• Smart Chimp Gets Speech Like a Human -- Discovery News (31 October 2011)
  
  
• Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language -- New York Times (10 October 2011)
  
  
• The Secret Life of Pronouns -- NewScientist (07 September 2011)
  
  
• Language Speed Versus Efficiency: Is Faster Better? -- EurekAlert (01 September 2011)
  
  
• Localizing Language in the Brain -- EurekAlert (30 August 2011)
  
  
• Bilingual Babies' Vocabulary Linked to Early Brain Differentiation -- EurekAlert (29 August 2011)
  
  
• Moms Talk, Daughters' Hormones Listen -- ScienceNews (12 August 2011)
  
  
• Nim Chimpsky: the chimp they tried to turn into a human -- Guardian (24 July 2011)
  
  
• Project Nim In Pictures -- Guardian (08 August 2011)
  
  
• Age No Excuse for Failing to Learn a New Language -- New Scientist (22 July 2011)
  
  
• Kiki or Bouba? In Search of Language's Missing Link -- New Scientist (18 July 2011)
  
  
• Even Before Language, Babies Learn the World Through Sounds -- EurekAlert (11 July 2011)
  
  
• Linguists Examine Obstacles to Native-like Proficiency in Foreign Language Acquisition -- EurekAlert (06 July 2011)
  
  
• Chimp Recognises Synthetic Speech -- BBC News (01 July 2011)
  
  
• Grow a New Language in Your Head -- MSNBC (23 June 2011)
  
  
• Early Experience Found Critical for Language Development -- EurekAlert (17 June 2011)
  
  
• Fluent English Speakers Translate Into Chinese Automatically -- EurekAlert (14 June 2011)
  
  
• Bilingualism No Big Deal for Brain, Kansas Researcher Finds -- EurekAlert (21 May 2011)
  
  
• The Bilingual Advantage -- New York Times (30 May 2011)
  
  
• Penn Research Overturns Theory on How Children Learn Their First Words -- EurekAlert (23 May 2011)
  
  
• Language Learning: CMU Researchers Use Video Games to Crack the Speech Code -- EurekAlert (18 May 2011)
  
  
• Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language -- Wired (17 May 2011)
  
  
• How Do Babies Learn to Talk? -- ABCNews (18 May 2011)
  
  
• Parents' Ums And Uhs Can Help Toddlers Learn Language -- NPR (14 April 2011)
  
  
• Language universality idea tested with biology method -- BBC News (14 April 2011)
  
  
• New Research Demonstrates Language Learners' Creativity -- EurekAlert (03 March 2011)
  
  
• What Bilingual Babies Reveal About the Brain: Q&A with Psychologist Janet Werker -- LiveScience (01 March 2011)
  
  
• To Stave Off Alzheimer's, Learn a Language? -- National Geographic News (18 February 2011)
  
  
• Language may play important role in learning the meanings of numbers -- EurekAlert (08 February 2011)
  
  
• Language Style Predicts Romantic Chemistry -- Discovery News (04 February 2011)
  
  
• Bilinguals Find It Easier to Learn a Third Language -- EurekAlert (01 February 2011)
  
  
• Humans' Critical Ability to Throw Long Distances Aided by an Illusion -- EurekAlert (24 January 2011)
  
  
• A Second Language Gives Toddlers an Edge -- EurekAlert (19 January 2011)

• approach that says that culture and society and a person’s social position influence/determine the content and form of language
  
  
  • dialectology
    
    
• a field of study devoted to revealing such social effects on language

Language reflects:

• place
  
  
• time
  
  
• age
  
  
• sex
  
  
• circumstance

• Does Your Language Shape How You Think? -- New York Times (29 August 2010)
  
  
• Guy Deutscher: Language alters how we think -- Guardian (13 June 2010)
  
  
• Language Appears to Shape Our Implicit Preferences -- EurekAlert (03 November 2010)
  
  
• 'Mum and dad made me multi-task better' -- BBC News (15 October 2010)
  
  
• Deutscher, Guy. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. (Arrow, 2011.
  
  
• Unfamiliar Accents Turn Off Humans And Songbirds -- NPR (16 November 2010)
  
  
• Words Cannot Express -- New York Times (03 September 2010)