NEUROLINGUIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurolinguist mean? 

• NEUROLINGUIST (noun)
  The noun NEUROLINGUIST has 1 sense:

1. someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception

  Familiarity information: NEUROLINGUIST used as a noun is very rare.

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• NEUROLINGUIST (noun)

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Meaning:

Someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("neurolinguist" is a kind of...):

linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)

neuroscientist (a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain)

Derivation:

neurolinguistics (the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system)