psycholinguist

American  

[sahy-koh-ling-gwist] / ˌsaɪ koʊˈlɪŋ gwɪst /

noun

plural

psycholinguists

1. a person with expertise in psycholinguistics.

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Example Sentences

Australian languages are among the least explored by psycholinguists—a major gap given the size of the language family.

From Scientific American

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

Among the hardest are what psycholinguists call garden-path sentences, like “The cotton clothes are made up of grows in Mississippi.”

From New York Times

Janet Randall, a psycholinguist at Northeastern University, has found that rendering these instructions in plain English, stripping out passives and legalese especially, makes them much easier to interpret.

From Economist

As a psycholinguist, I see language and culture closely intertwined, and the Olympics often attest to that with fascinating examples.

From Scientific American