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Brian MacWhinney is an American psycholinguist at Carnegie Mellon University, known for the Competition Model and for cofounding the CHILDES database.
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Brian MacWhinney ranks #84 of 201 in the Linguist ranking, behind Lauri Karttunen, ahead of Eugenio Coseriu.
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Brian MacWhinney scores 8.31/10 (Great) on Lunoo, making it a well-rated option in the Linguist category. Competition Model and CHILDES are highly influential; strong psycholinguistic and data infrastructure legacy.
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