The Psycholinguistics of Love
3 min readMay 9, 2021
Language emerged about 150,000 years ago as a tool to formulate our mindscapes and converse them with the world, before we had grammatical structure for the process. Grammar came much later to establish rules for what already had felt meaning and function. Children learn language without any knowledge of grammatical rules. But when we violate the psycholinguistic function of language, we create mindbody dissonance by misusing what took…
