psycholinguist
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psycholinguistsExample Sentences
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As a developmental psycholinguist who studies how people use language, I am interested in what speech errors tell us about the human mind.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2022
I sent a sample of GPT-2’s prose to Steven Pinker, the Harvard psycholinguist.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
Dan Dediu, a psycholinguist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, says the study’s results open new doors for investigating modern languages, as well.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 9, 2016
By studying bilinguals, “we’re taking that classic debate and turning it on its head,” says psycholinguist Panos Athanasopoulos of Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 17, 2015
As James Morgan, a developmental psycholinguist at Brown University, put it, obsessive word counting might lead parents to conclude that “saying ‘doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy’ is more meaningful than saying ‘doggy.’
From The New Yorker • Jan. 5, 2015
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