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PSYCHOLINGUIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does psycholinguist mean?
• PSYCHOLINGUIST (noun)
The noun PSYCHOLINGUIST has 1 sense:
1. a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language
Familiarity information: PSYCHOLINGUIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("psycholinguist" is a kind of...):
linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)
psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)
Derivation:
psycholinguistics (the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance)
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