Sentences with phrase «linguists agree»

Researchers, reading specialists, second - language - acquisition experts, and linguists agree that explicit instruction in vocabulary is necessary for students to have robust academic vocabularies.

Linguists agree that all humans must share some cognitive or linguistic structures, but there's great debate over which features of language are universal — or at least, innately human.

For example, they assumed that Latin was directly ancestral to Romance languages such as Spanish, French, and Italian — something that many but not all linguists agree on — and that Vedic Sanskrit was directly ancestral to the Indo - Aryan languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent.

Not exact matches

Florian Coulmas, a linguist at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany, agrees that an evolutionary framework doesn't work well for written language, but says there's another, simpler explanation: Once a script is introduced, people tend to follow it diligently to avoid confusion — a concept known as path dependence.

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.

Linguists generally agreed that human language is a learned behavior, until Noam Chomsky vigorously presented contrary evidence showing that language is innate.

(Hopefully, you're not working with a bunch of postmodern armchair linguists, but if you are, just tell them this is arbitrary and meaningless but you might as well agree on the same imaginary stuff because unity is fun.)