linguistic scientist
Noun
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A specialist in linguistics (synset 110284134)
is a type of: scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciencessubtypes:
- computational linguist - someone trained in computer science and linguistics who uses computers for natural language processing
- grammarian, syntactician - a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax
- hebraist - linguist specializing in the Hebrew language
- lexicographer, lexicologist - a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language
- neurolinguist - someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception
- phonetician - a specialist in phonetics
- phonologist - a specialist in phonology
- psycholinguist - a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language
- semanticist, semiotician - a specialist in the study of meaning
- sociolinguist - a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication
specific instances:- bloomfield, leonard bloomfield - United States linguist who adopted a behavioristic approach to linguistics (1887-1949)
- a. noam chomsky, chomsky, noam chomsky - United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)
- de saussure, ferdinand de saussure, saussure - Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)
- firth, j. r. firth, john rupert firth - English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
- grimm, jakob grimm, jakob ludwig karl grimm - the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)
- jakobson, roman jakobson, roman osipovich jakobson - United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for his description of the universals of phonology (1896-1982)
- jens otto harry jespersen, jespersen, otto jespersen - Danish linguist (1860-1943)
- edward sapir, sapir - anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939)
same as: linguist
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