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Term: psycholinguist

Definition: A psycholinguist is a person who studies the psychological and cognitive processes that impact the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language.

Sense 1: As a noun, a psycholinguist refers to an expert in the field of psycholinguistics.

Example sentence 1: The renowned psycholinguist conducted experiments to determine how language is processed by the brain.

Example sentence 2: Psycholinguists are interested in how children acquire language skills during their early development.

Sense 2: As an adjective, psycholinguist describes something related to the study of psycholinguistics.

Example sentence 1: The psycholinguistic approach to language learning focuses on the interactions between language and cognition.

Example sentence 2: Emily conducted a psycholinguistic analysis of the speech patterns exhibited by patients with aphasia.

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