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. As with its first edition, the aim of this Research Topic is to gather comprehensive and up-to-date review articles on key aspects of psycholinguistics, with a focus on the topics and methodologies that are currently in the spotlight, such as the use of artificial intelligence for the improvement of our understanding of language processing by the brain or our teaching methods, or the role of linguistic and cognitive diversity in refining our understanding of language psychology. In this second volume of the Research Topic “Reviews in Psychology of Language,” we have collected 10 contributions by 21 scholars.