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- noun A practitioner of
psycholinguistics .
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- noun a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language
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Examples
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I was also psyched because I learned there is an actual job called a psycholinguist!
Boing Boing: September 12, 2004 - September 18, 2004 Archives 2004
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For instance, a psycholinguist like myself might compare the two following sentences:
The military is making telepathic helmets. Sign me up. GamesWithWords 2010
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Years ago, the psycholinguist Deborah Tannen observed that there is a gender difference in the use of information.
June « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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Years ago, the psycholinguist Deborah Tannen observed that there is a gender difference in the use of information.
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This willingness to accept dangling participles, I suspect, is because I am a psycholinguist.
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J -- as a psycholinguist, I flatter myself in knowing something about psycholinguistics.
1/3 of Americans can't speak? GamesWithWords 2010
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I can never tell anymore, as being a psycholinguist has massively lowered my threshold for ambiguity.
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For instance, a psycholinguist like myself might compare the two following sentences:
Archive 2010-05-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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This willingness to accept dangling participles, I suspect, is because I am a psycholinguist.
An honestly bad dangling participle « Motivated Grammar 2008
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Theyre what psycholinguist Jamie Pennebaker calls graceful Is: I suppose, I see, I wonder if.
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