PSYCHOLINGUIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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