This is a series of brief surveys intended for readers new to the formal study of language. Psycholinguists have shown that the comprehension and production of even the simplest and most commonplace language is a highty complex, almost miraculours, process. This brief introduction shows how psycholinguistic research can act as a window to the workings of the human mind.
1. Introduction
2. Acquisition: When I was a child, I spoke as a child
3. Production: putting words in one's mouth
4. Comprehension: understanding what we hear and read
5. Dissolution: language loss