noun · neutral
linguist
/ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/LIN·guist
a person who studies language scientifically
Examples
“As a linguist, she studies how children learn languages.”
“The linguist analysed speech patterns in the region.”
“He works as a computational linguist on speech recognition.”
Band 8 sentence
“As a linguist, she analysed how children acquire vocabulary differently in bilingual households.”
Collocations
- applied linguist
- computational linguist
- a linguist studies
Word family
Common mistakes
He is linguist.→He is a linguist.
A linguist is someone who speaks many languages.→A linguist is someone who studies language; someone who speaks many languages is a polyglot.
Say it for a higher band
5translator→6language researcher→7+linguist
Synonyms
language researcher
Easily confused
polyglot
“Although he's a polyglot who speaks six languages, he isn't trained as a linguist.”
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