Psycholinguistic theory

Psycholinguistic theory explores how humans acquire, understand, produce, and organize language in the brain. It examines the mental processes involved in decoding speech or text, forming thoughts into words, and comprehending meaning. These theories aim to explain how language is stored in our minds, how we learn language as children, and how we process complex sentences. Essentially, psycholinguistics bridges linguistics and psychology to understand the cognitive mechanisms behind our everyday language use, shedding light on how language functions in our mental world.