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Noun: psycholinguist  ,sI-kow'ling-gwist
  1. A person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language
    "The psycholinguist conducted experiments on how children acquire language"

Derived forms: psycholinguists

Type of: linguist, linguistic scientist, psychologist

Encyclopedia: Psycholinguist