Editing Psycholinguistics (section)

==History==
In seeking to understand the properties of language acquisition, psycholinguistics has roots in debates regarding innate versus acquired behaviors (both in biology and psychology). For some time, the concept of an innate trait was something that was not recognized in studying the psychology of the individual.<ref name=":2">{{Citation|last=Griffiths|first=Paul|title=The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics|date=2017|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/innate-acquired/|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N.|edition=Spring 2017|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|access-date=2019-10-31}}</ref> However, with the redefinition of innateness as time progressed, behaviors considered innate could once again be analyzed as behaviors that interacted with the psychological aspect of an individual. After the diminished popularity of the [[Behaviorism|behaviorist]] model, [[ethology]] reemerged as a leading train of thought within psychology, allowing the subject of language, an [[Innate behavior|innate human behavior]], to be examined once more within the scope of psychology.<ref name=":2" />

=== Origin of "psycholinguistics" ===
The theoretical framework for psycholinguistics ostensibly began to be developed near the end of the 19th century as the "psychology of language". The work of [[Edward Thorndike]] and [[Frederic Bartlett]] laid the foundations{{cn|date=May 2025}} of what would come to be known{{says who?|date=May 2025}} as "psycholinguistics." 

The use of the term "psycholinguistic" is first encountered in [[adjective]] form in psychologist [[Jacob Robert Kantor|Jacob Kantor]] 1936 book ''An Objective Psychology of Grammar''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=A history of psycholinguistics: the pre-Chomskyan era |last=Levelt |first=Willem J. M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YUSDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+history+of+psycholinguistics:+the+pre-Chomskyan+era&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=A%20history%20of%20psycholinguistics%3A%20the%20pre-Chomskyan%20era&f=false |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780191627200 |location=London|oclc=824525524|access-date=May 3, 2025|quote=It was, to the best of my knowledge, Jacob Robert Kantor who  introduced the term "psycholinguistics," or, rather, used it as an adjective in a section heading of his 1936 book ''An Objective Psychology of Grammar''.}}</ref>{{rp|260}}

The term "psycholinguistics" came into wider usage in 1946 when Kantor's student Nicholas Pronko published an article entitled "Psycholinguistics: A Review".<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Pronko|first=N. H.|date=May 1946|title=Language and psycholinguistics: a review.|journal=Psychological Bulletin|volume=43|issue=3|pages=189–239|doi=10.1037/h0056729|pmid=21027277|issn=1939-1455|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D86-E|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Pronko's intention was to unify related theoretical approaches under a single name.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The term was used for the first time to talk about an interdisciplinary field "that could be coherent",<ref name=":0"/> in  [[Charles E. Osgood]] and [[Thomas A. Sebeok]]'s ''Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems'' (1954).<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Murray DJ | date = 2001 | chapter = Language and psychology: 19th-century developments outside the Germany: A Survey | veditors = Auroux S | title = Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften (vol. 2 History of the Language Sciences: An International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present | location = Berlin | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | isbn = 3110167352 }}</ref>{{rp|1679-1692}}