Feature doctrine and prototype doctrine are two main theories in the psychology of language to explain the words meaning acquisition of individuals.

特征理论和原形理论是解释词的含义以及获得的两种主要理论。

youdao

Dr. Pimsleur, a Ph. D. and specialist in the field of applied linguistics, devoted his life and career to learning languages and understanding the psychology of language acquisition.

皮姆斯勒博士，一个博士和应用语言学领域的专家将毕生都贡献给学习语言，研究学习语言的心理。

youdao

It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example, and many journal articles in fields as diverse as astronomy, child psychology and zoology have English as a kind of default language.

例如，英语经常是各种会议的通用语，天文学、儿童心理学和动物学等领域的许多期刊文章都将英语作为一种默认语言。

youdao

And this is the puzzle faced by the psychology and cognitive science of language.

这也是心理学和语言认知学,所面临的难题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, here's a simple example of the unconscious in modern psychology: Language understanding.

现代心理学中有一个简单的无意识的例子：,就是语言理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's about understanding the culture, language and psychology of social media users, which, she says, has huge implications for both business and government.

CNN: The woman using social media to predict the future

Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, US, and the author of the best-sellers The Language Instinct and How The Mind Works.

BBC: Aventis science prize 2003 - Pinker