The Cornerstones of Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics

The name says it all—psycholinguistics is a discipline which draws on multiple sources. It is simultaneously psychology and linguistics. At the heart of the discipline, therefore, is the relationship between these two fields, each of which can boast centuries of research tradition as a recognizable independent field of study. By contrast, psycholinguistics itself is relatively young. Though research in both its parent fields addressed language processing issues in earlier times, psycholinguistics as we understand it today and as a discipline with its own name has only been in existence since the mid-twentieth century.