To study about psycholinguistics, at first we should know what is a “psycholinguist” ? As the name suggests, it is someone who studies phenomena in the intersection of linguistics and psychology (or a deranged linguist, of course!). But this does not really answer the question, it just pushes back. So, first—what is linguistics? It’s the scientific study of language. Psychology? The scientific study of human behavior and cognition (i.e., how we th ...