biolinguisticsn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstiks/ With singular agreement. The study of the biological and evolutionary basis of language; the relationship between biological and linguistic factors in an individual or race.
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1925 Q. Jrnl. Speech Educ. 11 282 The new laboratory of biolinguistics is being equipped at the University of Michigan..to supplement the phonetics laboratory which has been in use for over a decade.
1974 Eng. Jrnl. 63 65/1 This interest in linguistic knowledge has resulted in the establishment of several so-called ‘hyphenated disciplines’, for example: bio-linguistics, psycho-linguistics, and socio-linguistics.
2002 Trends in Biochem. Sci. 26 551/2 The computational biolinguistics project promises to provide novel views and approaches to solving these challenges.
2003 Oxf. Handbk. Computational Linguistics (2004) 270 Her current research interests include biolinguistics—the application of human language technology to bioinformatics.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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