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Psycholinguistics

Language psychology or psychology of language; emerged the early 1960s in opposition to behaviorism, especially on operant conditioning and processing of meaning.

In Europe, psycholinguistics would be recognised for a science mostly to belong with linguistics and taught in philological college or university departments.

World wide, psycholinguistics happens to be taught at psychology or philosophy faculties, with varied language backgrounds.

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