Editorial: Reviews in psychology of language-volume II

Over the last few decades, psycholinguistics has crucially contributed, together with neurolinguistics, to our understanding of how our brain processes language. Although languages are sensitive to their speakers’ physical and social environment, the core features of language and how they are used depend primarily on how our brain is configured and works. Significant progress has been made in recent years in our understanding of language comprehension and production, language use in natural settings, language acquisition in children and language learning in adults, and language change throughout the lifespan. These are still key areas of interest for psycholinguistics, particularly now that they are being increasingly cross-fertilized by other related disciplines: neurolinguistics, as noted, but also biolinguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, and cognitive sciences, to name a few. At the same time, advances in many fields have opened up new avenues of research that practitioners of psycholinguistics and related fields should be aware of.