Psycholinguist

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<p>My daughter has decided THAT is what she wants to be. Ever hear of it?</p>

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<p>Not specifically, but there are many areas of studies these days that have evolved from interdisciplinary interests. </p>

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<p>The College Board web site lists 6 colleges with “cognitive psychology/psycholinguistics” programs, with Northwestern the most prominent name on the list. (They don’t rank the programs.)</p>

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<p>A lot of my graduate research in Computational Linguistics had psycholinguistic components (mostly, how language components are learned and represented in the brain so that they could be replicated on a computer, or what their meaning and interpretation is, again, with the goal of writing computer software that understands English).</p>

<p>To make sure one is remotely employable, tho, I would suggest a solid background (minor at least, more is better) in computer science and / or cognitive psychology. Plus a graduate degree or three. </p>

<p>There are companies doing this kind of work… IBM and Nuance, for one. We do a lot of work with them since our devices speak and understand fairly decent English.</p>