psycholinguist
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psycholinguists
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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
For example, psycholinguists hypothesize that speakers start with what they want to convey.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
In 1971, psycholinguists Sam Glucksberg and Joseph H. Danks advanced a new thesis: As you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2014
Adult language learners are, to borrow a phrase used by some psycholinguists, too smart for our own good.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2014
A team of Dutch psycholinguists has discovered a word that is practically universal in all human languages.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2013
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