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Psycholinguistics

Medical Definition: A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them; it deals directly with the processes of encoding (phonetics) and decoding (psychoacoustics) as they relate states of messages to states of communicators.
Guide Notes: SPEC: IM, SPEC qualif; coord with specific linguistic & psychol concepts (IM); NIM coord, no qualif
Previously Indexed: Language (1966)
Psycholinguistics Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Semantic Differential - Analysis of word concepts by the association of polar adjectives, e.g., good-bad, with the concept, father. The adjectives are usually scaled in 7 steps. The subject's placement of the concept on the adjectival scale indicates the connotative meaning of the concept.

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