I didn't start out to study psycholinguistics. I started out to study a million languages, because I loved them.

我一开始不是学语言心理学的。我一开始是把精力放在了研究各种语言上，因为我真地很喜欢语言。

So I thought psycholinguistics would be interesting.

所以我觉得心理语言学会很有趣。

Studies of children's language acquisition and of second-language acquisition are psycholinguistic in nature.

对儿童语言习得和第二语言习得的研究本质上是心理语言学的。

It is hard to work out where culture has affected language, where language affects culture and cognition (a hot topic of psycholinguistic research), and where the differences are unrelated.

文化在哪影响了语言、语言在哪影响了文化和认知（心理语言学研究的一个热门话题）、差异在哪是无关联的都很难计算。

Next comes psycholinguistics, which merges the fields of psychology and linguistics to study how people process language and how language use is related to underlying mental processes.

其次是心理语言学，它融合了心理学和语言学的领域来研究人们如何处理语言，以及语言的使用如何与潜在的心理过程相关。

Investigating the mental processes involved in language acquisition, comprehension, and production is another dimension. Psycholinguistics within applied linguistics explores the cognitive aspects of language use, learning, and processing.

研究语言习得、理解和产生的心理过程是另一个维度。应用语言学中的心理语言学探索语言使用、学习和处理的认知方面。