Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is the study of the relationship between linguistic and psychological factors: how people acquire language, understand and use it, and how language impacts thought and behavior. Psycholinguists research different aspects of language processing, including language acquisition, speaking, comprehension, diverse language disorders, and neurolinguistics, a field that studies the brain’s structures and processes involved in the use of language.

First Language Acquisition

First language acquisition research focuses on the process in which children learn to speak their mother tongue, presenting the natural and healthy processes and stages from speech onset to full language command.

Clinical Linguistics

Clinical linguistics uses linguistics to research language impairments in all its forms.