ABSTRACT
The word “psycholinguistics” denotes a composite of the two disciplines, psychology and linguistics. The rebirth of this interdisciplinary area after a rocky history (see Rieber & Vetter, Chapter 2, this volume) was stimulated about 20 years ago by the interaction of psychologist George A. Miller with linguist Noam Chomsky. Although this area of investigation has grown markedly in size and strength during the past two decades, the number of occasions on which psychologists and linguists actually combine efforts in a truly interdisciplinary fashion is painfully small. This book represents such an effort, and the chapter authors hope it will provide a stimulus for the readers to continue the active development of an interdisciplinary communication and a merger of ideas between psychology and linguistics.
