Sentences with phrase «american linguist»

In simple words, the firm put to effect American linguist Noam Chomsky's theory of manufacturing consent, but in an illegal way by breaching the privacy of millions of Facebook users and also violating the terms laid down by the social media giant.

An American linguist named Swadesh reasoned that if you could identify these basic, stubborn word - concepts you could (using an assumption about the rate of linguistic change) find commonalities and divergences among languages, allowing linguists to date the points at which one language or language family branched away from another.

One expert with the answers is Neil Cohn, an American linguist based at Tilburg University in The Netherlands.

«One of the great early American linguists, Leonard Bloomfield, said that you can never see a language change, that the change is invisible,» said Robin Clark, a coauthor and professor of linguistics in Penn Arts and Sciences.

Brenda McKenna agrees that Native American linguists have much to contribute to their communities, although students of all backgrounds need to be aware of cultural undercurrents.

Not exact matches

Steven Pinker, an American cognitive psychologist and linguist also points out...

Voted word of the year by the linguists of the American Dialect Society in 2007, this had to be the only occasion on which the mention of the word drew acclaim.

There is American Sign Language, used by one of the visitors, a deaf linguist from California.

But time is short, and until Axelrod's vision becomes reality, there are many opportunities for linguists, both Native American and non-Native, to contribute to language revitalization.

It will feature Adams («American Hustle») as an expert linguist recruited by the military to determine whether a group of aliens crash - landing on Earth come in peace or are a threat.

Five - time Oscar nominee Amy Adams (American Hustle) gives the top performance of her already formidable career as top - flight linguist Louise Banks, who is recruited by a hardnosed military colonel (Forest Whitaker) to figure out how to communicate with an enigmatic alien race that has descended upon Earth.

A scholar and linguist, Dr. Apelles is 42 years old and devoted to his intellectual pursuits, which include the translation of rare Native - American texts.

Linguist Nicholas Ostler would appear to be that singular type of British scholar who combines daunting erudition with an equal measure of eccentricity (one of the two dozen or so languages he knows is Chibcha, an ancient South American tongue).

Two hundred linguists from the American Dialect Society have declared the singular «they» as word of the year.

These are people who aren't supposed to remember what it's like to even smell books,» said Naomi S. Baron, an American University linguist who studies digital communication.

But, on the flipside, of course, is that the Presidio was also the birthplace of the Defense Language Institute - because Japanese American men volunteered to serve their country in World War II by becoming translators and military linguists, training here in the Presidio [at the Military Intelligence School on Crissy Field].

Within its walls, visitors learn about the U.S. Army language school created just before the attack on Pearl Harbor where mostly Japanese American soldiers were trained as linguists supporting the American World War II effort.

Mel Bochner is an American painter, printmaker, linguist and pioneer of the Conceptual Art movement.