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NEUROLINGUIST
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception
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Hypernyms ("neurolinguist" is a kind of...):
linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)
neuroscientist (a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain)
Derivation:
neurolinguistics (the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system)