Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Psycholinguistics focus on the study of the mental processes that underlie our ability to produce, understand, and acquire languages. After reviewing the experimental methods that are most commonly used in psycholinguistics, this chapter presents two areas of research in language comprehension that have received much attention from psycholinguists who work with the Portuguese language: ambiguous sentence processing and pronoun resolution. The presentation of these topics, exemplified with studies developed with both Brazilian and European Portuguese, allows for a review of some of the most relevant subjects studied within psycholinguistics. At the end, topics that could not be detailed in this review are briefly listed as they are also the focus of extensive research in Portuguese.</jats:p>