Psycholinguistics is the study of the psychological processes involved in language. Psycholinguists study understanding, production, and remembering language,and hence are concerned 【M1】______ with listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language. One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually 【M2】______ happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. 【M3】______ Indeed, when you listen to someone speaking or looking at this page, 【M4】______ you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptional circumstances we might become aware of 【M5】______ the complexity involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it; if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has 【M6】______ influenced their language; if we observe a child acquiring language; 【M7】______ if we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; or if we are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meet anyone else 【M8】______ who is. As we shall see, all these examples of what might be called "language in exceptional circumstances" reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking, listening, writing and reading. But 【M9】______ given that language processes were normally so automatic, we also 【M10】______ need to carry out careful experiment to get at what is happening.
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