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Meaning of "psycholinguist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PSYCHOLINGUIST

psycholinguist  [ˌsaɪkəʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PSYCHOLINGUIST

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Psycholinguist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PSYCHOLINGUIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Psycholinguist

A psycholinguist is a social scientist who studies Psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics is interdisciplinary in nature and is studied by people in a variety of fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, and linguistics. There are several subdivisions within psycholinguistics that are based on the components that make up human language. More specifically, a psycholinguist studies language, speech production and comprehension using behavioral and neurological methods traditionally developed in the field of psychology, though other methods such as corpus analysis are also widely used. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, psycholinguists can be found in linguistic, psychology, cognitive sciences, communication science, disorders and other departments. The main aim of psycholinguistics is to outline and describe the process of producing and comprehending communication. In the tradition of psychology, various models are used to further this understanding. Psycholinguists currently represent a widely diverse field. Many psycholinguists are also considered to be neurolinguists, cognitive linguists, and/or neurocognitive linguists themselves or are associated with those who are.

Definition of psycholinguist in the English dictionary

The definition of psycholinguist in the dictionary is an expert in, or student of, psycholinguistics.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PSYCHOLINGUIST


acquist
əˈkwɪst
bilinguist
ˌbaɪˈlɪŋɡwɪst
ethnolinguist
ˌeθnəʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst
intwist
ɪnˈtwɪst
linguist
ˈlɪŋɡwɪst
monolinguist
ˌmɒnəʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst
multilinguist
ˌmʌltɪˈlɪŋɡwɪst
neurolinguist
ˌnjʊərəʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst
quist
kwɪst
retwist
ˌriːˈtwɪst
sociolinguist
ˌsəʊsɪəʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst
soliloquist
səˈlɪləkwɪst
supertwist
ˈsuːpərˌtwɪst
twist
twɪst
untwist
ʌnˈtwɪst
unwist
ʌnˈwɪst
ventriloquist
vɛnˈtrɪləkwɪst
whist
wɪst
wist
wɪst
Yahwist
ˈjɑːwɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PSYCHOLINGUIST

psychokinesis
psychokinetic
psychol.
psycholinguistic
psycholinguistics
psychologic
psychological
psychological block
psychological moment
psychological operations
psychological primary
psychological warfare
psychologically
psychologies
psychologise
psychologism
psychologist
psychologistic
psychologize
psychology

WORDS THAT END LIKE PSYCHOLINGUIST

Adrian Quist
altruist
buist
casuist
cataloguist
colloquist
euphuist
fuguist
jujuist
monologuist
revuist
Sinarquist
somniloquist
vacuist

Synonyms and antonyms of psycholinguist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «psycholinguist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PSYCHOLINGUIST

Find out the translation of psycholinguist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of psycholinguist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «psycholinguist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

psycholinguist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

psicolingüista
570 millions of speakers

English

psycholinguist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

psycholinguist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

psycholinguist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

психолингвист
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

psicolinguista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

psycholinguist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

psycholinguiste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Psikolinguis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Psycholinguist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

psycholinguist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

심리 언어학
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Psikolinguist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

psycholinguist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

psycholinguist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मनोलोलॉजिस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

psycholinguist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

psicolinguista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

psycholinguist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

психолінгвіст
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

psycholinguist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψυχογλωσσολόγο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

psycholinguist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

psykolingvisten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

psycholinguist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of psycholinguist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PSYCHOLINGUIST»

The term «psycholinguist» is used very little and occupies the 165.355 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PSYCHOLINGUIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about psycholinguist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PSYCHOLINGUIST»

Discover the use of psycholinguist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to psycholinguist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Psychological Foundations of Educational Technology
Man's brain, and man's brain alone, is a language-supporting brain. Corresponding to the neurological picture is the psycholinguist's view of language. Almost every psycholinguist is impressed not only with the unique nature of language itself ...
William Clark Trow, Eugene E. Haddan, 1976
2
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: ...
The catch was that the psycholinguist was to use the grammar that Chomsky provided. Why the failure on the part of psycholinguists? Are psycholinguists too dumb to come up with viable performance models? While this may be so, it is well to ...
Sheila M. Embleton, John Earl Joseph, Hans-Josef Niederehe, 1999
3
Experimental Child Psychologist: Essays and Experiments in ...
The psycholinguist is interested in the age when "vice-versa" utterances appear in children's language, believing that vice-versa formulations betoken the Piagetian "reversibility" associated with operational thought. The psycholinguist is ...
L. P. Lipsitt, J. H. Cantor, 2013
4
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on ...
The catch was that the psycholinguist was to use the grammar that Chomsky provided. Why the failure on the part of psycholinguists? Are psycholinguists too dumb to come up with viable performance models? While this may be so, it is well to ...
Sheila M. Embleton, John Earl Joseph, Hans-Josef Niederehe, 1999
5
Statistics in Language Studies
In this way, a large number of values is reduced to just two. We shall return to the phonetician's data, but let us now look at another example. In this case a psycholinguist is interested in the nature of aptitude for learning foreign languages.
Anthony Woods, 1986
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Processing Interclausal Relationships: Studies in the ...
Consider the following two sentences: A psycholinguist was writing a chapter. The psycholinguist was trying to think of examples. The use of the definite article, the, in the second sentence suggests that the psycholinguist who was writing a ...
Jean Costermans, Michel Fayol, 2014
7
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Age and gender are the only categories that matter at this point. Race doesn't matter to a three-year-old.55 The daughter of the British psycholinguist didn't notice, or didn't care, that her favorite playmates at the day-care center had darker skin ...
Judith Rich Harris, 2011
8
Twenty-first Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones
What does it mean to be a psycholinguist? One must have interest in how language structure relates to language use. This does not exclude a primary bias to one or other of the two underlying sets of research issues. Thus a psycholinguist ...
Anne Cutler, 2005
9
Where Lexicon and Syntax Meet
Chapter. Six. In. the. psycholinguist's. laboratory. 6.1. An experimental test It is often hard to determine what predictions a theory makes about performance in a given experimental situation, and a wrong interpretation of the theory's prediction  ...
Doris Schönefeld, 2001
10
Psycholinguistic Research (PLE: Psycholinguistics): ...
However, the occasion on which a psycholinguist or a generativist grammarian constructs a sentence on the basis of some rule(s), changing it until it contains the properties he /she wants it to have to test a theory, is (as already indicated) ...
Doris Aaronson, Robert W. Rieber, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PSYCHOLINGUIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term psycholinguist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Anti-swearing laws redundant and ineffective at protecting children …
"Psycholinguist Timothy Jay has done extensive studies on children and swearing, and he has tried to dispel many myths about swearing," she told Linda ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
2
How can children learn fourth languages? asks linguist Dr Henriette …
I am a psycholinguist (or cognitive linguist) specialised in language acquisition and learning. How would you explain your current work to a stranger on the bus? «Cambridge News, Jul 15»
3
Foul-mouthed Minions? Some myths about children and swearing
According to an academic who has performed extensive research on swearing, psycholinguist Timothy Jay, children learn swear words from a very young age: ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
4
Bringing sanity to clarity
It's instructive that the first person Steven Pinker, the noted psycholinguist and cognitive scientist, mentions in the acknowledgments page of his latest book, “The ... «Harvard Gazette, Mar 15»
5
Learning new languages will literally make you see the world …
“[We're] taking that classic debate and turning it on its head,” psycholinguist Panos Athanasopoulos said, by asking whether “two different minds [can] exist ... «BGR, Mar 15»
6
Speaking a second language may change how you see the world
By studying bilinguals, “we're taking that classic debate and turning it on its head,” says psycholinguist Panos Athanasopoulos of Lancaster University in the ... «Science AAAS, Mar 15»
7
Ebonics Debunked
Psycholinguist Frantz Fanon once asserted that to speak a language is to assume its culture. In order to understand a language, its speakers, and its character, ... «Harvard Crimson, Feb 15»
8
Social change and the Fatima Index
The coolest job in today's world has to be being a professional “namer”. Yes, it is a real job, kind of like a cross between a rapper and a psycholinguist, and large ... «The National, Feb 15»
9
The Sense of Style review – Steven Pinker's comedy of linguistic …
Pinker, a psycholinguist who teaches at Harvard, is nest-foulingly vitriolic about the obfuscations of academic prose, and classifies passages by critics such as ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
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The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any …
It is a plausible hypothesis, first put forward by the psycholinguist Dan Slobin, that when formulating an utterance, speakers organise their thinking in accordance ... «Times Higher Education, Aug 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Psycholinguist [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/psycholinguist>. May 2024 ».
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