I was also psyched because I learned there is an actual job called a psycholinguist!. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 12, 2004 - September 18, 2004 Archives] Reference
Frog Leg in reply to a comment from psycholinguist. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Running Robo-Slime In ... Washington State?] Reference
Still, I wouldn't mind if a psycholinguist ran for Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
For instance, a psycholinguist like myself might compare the two following sentences. From Wordnik.com. [The military is making telepathic helmets. Sign me up.] Reference
J -- as a psycholinguist, I flatter myself in knowing something about psycholinguistics. From Wordnik.com. [1/3 of Americans can't speak?] Reference
Theyre what psycholinguist Jamie Pennebaker calls graceful Is: I suppose, I see, I wonder if. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Nunberg: 'The I's Don't Have It'] Reference
This willingness to accept dangling participles, I suspect, is because I am a psycholinguist. From Wordnik.com. [2008 July « Motivated Grammar] Reference
I can never tell anymore, as being a psycholinguist has massively lowered my threshold for ambiguity. From Wordnik.com. [On the use of ex- « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Years ago, the psycholinguist Deborah Tannen observed that there is a gender difference in the use of information. From Wordnik.com. [The [Restricted/Slanted/Inaccurate/Incomplete/Mis-] Information Society « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference
That view changed during the 1990s, in part because of the influential work of psycholinguist David McNeill at the University of Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: October 2006 Archives] Reference
Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by MIT psycholinguist Stephen Pinker (which you and everyone else should read), published in 1994. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 12, 2004 - September 18, 2004 Archives] Reference
When, as a psycholinguist, I am interested in whether a particular phrase is ever seen in normal English, it is very simple to just Google that phrase and find out. From Wordnik.com. [I'm on Google's blacklist] Reference
In a new study published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences June 27-July 1, Michael Spivey, a psycholinguist and associate professor of psychology at Cornell, tracked the mouse movements of undergraduate students while working at a computer. From Wordnik.com. [Our Brains’ don’t think like Computers | Impact Lab] Reference
Now I'm no psycholinguist, but obviously this story smells fishy, so I had a closer look. From Wordnik.com. [Jabal al-Lughat] Reference
Dr. Clifford A. Wilson (b. 1923) is an Australian archaeologist, author, and psycholinguist. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This is the first study to find that driving impairs language skills, said Gary Dell, a psycholinguist in the department of psychology at Illinois and corresponding author on the study. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
"The previous findings made no sense to those of us who have studied language," said Gary Dell, a psycholinguist in the department of psychology at Illinois and corresponding author on the study. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Gary Dell, a psycholinguist in the department of psychology at Illinois, and his colleagues found that young and old drivers lose about 20 percent of their ability to retain and retell a story while driving. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A psycholinguist will say that this phenomenon is working proof of Zipf's Law, which states loosely that one can generally determine the relative age of a particular word or phrase by how short it has become -- how many syllables it has shed in its course of existence, how slurred or simplified the pronunciation has become, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4] Reference
As a psycholinguist, I’m more concerned with how comprehensible a sentence is than with how precisely linked the modifiers are. From Wordnik.com. [2008 July « Motivated Grammar] Reference
So it’s probably not a mere error, which means that the psycholinguist in me can come out and wonder why people behave in this grammatically strange way. From Wordnik.com. [Short Sale Your House! (Don’t short sell it.) « Motivated Grammar] Reference
“My older son is fascinated, because he thinks this could really help him,” said psycholinguist Sara Weyland, Dixon’s colleague and the mother of two children with Asperger’s. From Wordnik.com. [Talking In Color Helps With Social Skills | Impact Lab] Reference
Posted by tosh in reply to a comment from psycholinguist. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Running Robo-Slime In ... Washington State?] Reference
Posted by psycholinguist. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Running Robo-Slime In ... Washington State?] Reference
12b) by Syracuse University psycholinguist and NEST consultant Murray Miron. From Wordnik.com. [PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All] Reference
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