心理语言学涉及心理学和语言学两大学科,心理和语言的结合有漫长的历史,分分合合,其现代雏形始于威廉·冯特于19世纪晚期在莱比锡建立的心理实验室。心理语言学经历了漫长的发展历程,渐近成熟。目前,其跨学科的趋势进一步加强,和认知科学、神经科学、计算机科学联手,产生了很多新的研究领域。但心理语言学最重要的研究议题依旧是“客体”语言和“主体”心理之间的交互运作,重在通过语言折射语言使用者的心智运作过程,揭 Psycholinguistics involves two major disciplines, psychology and linguistics. The combination of psychology and language has a long history and is divided into two parts. Its modern prototype started with the psychology laboratory set up by William Vonte in the late 19th century in Leipzig. Psycholinguistics has experienced a long course of development, as the maturity. At present, the trend of interdisciplinarity is further strengthened, and in combination with cognitive science, neuroscience and computer science, many new fields of research have emerged. However, the most important research topic in psycholinguistics is still the interaction between the “object” language and the “subject” mentality. The emphasis is on the psychological process of language users’ refraction by means of language