Sentences with phrase «as linguist»

As a linguist, it's no surprise that Michelle's priority is the very best communication.

As an example of Aboriginal English, «granny» is relatively recent — as any linguist will tell you, language is evolving — yet its growing use by Aboriginal grandparents in various parts of the country speaks uniquely of identity.

My intention as a Linguist is to facilitate the communication between peoples of different backgrounds to assist in these areas by utilizing my knowledge of the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese languages.

Sell the army programs as well as Linguist (09L) program to leads; relate experiences and benefits of being a 09L (interpreter, translator, culture awareness specialist)

I can say, as a linguist, that certain other words like «both» push the interpretation in the direction of an «and» reading, and «either» favors an «or» reading.

Amy Adams riveted audiences with performances in Arrival, as the linguist Dr. Louise Banks, and in Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, as Susan, an art gallerist disillusioned by her life choices.

He invests in his subject wholeheartedly, consulting figures as respected in different circles as linguist Noam Chomsky, consumer advocate and repeat presidential candidate Ralph Nader, and Donald Trump.

Amy Adams stars as a linguist reaching out to extraterrestrial visitors in Denis Villeneuve's high - concept highwire act of a film

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner star as a linguist and physicist recruited by the government to facilitate relations with one of the twelve spherical shapes that have landed around the world with no discernible pattern.

Amy Adams stars as a linguist who helps the U.S. government communicate with aliens who appear in Montana and 11 others sites around the world.

While I don't discriminate against any particular women, I still like to go back to my roots and date Russian (and other ex-Soviet Union) women every now As a linguist, I often get asked about best ways to learn languages.

Mecki Allen is a studio potter who started making ceramics seriously about three years ago, leaving behind a high - pressured job as a linguist in law and publishing.

This lead him to Hawaii, where he spent four years working as a linguist.

Langer, who trained as a linguist, said for years prior to 1993, environmentalists had been trying to affect change in the way B.C.'s forests were harvested, with little impact.

But we do not want to masquerade as linguists and be anything else but that.

You seem to «privilege» your sense of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy into your sense of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service of my attitude, outlook, frame of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational belief & bias system — and my unconscious, of which my consciousness is merely tip - of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip of the iceberg.

As the linguists wrote in their first major paper on the village, «In the space of one generation from its inception, systematic grammatical structure has emerged in the language.»

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.

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Anyway, by the time of his death he had probably already achieved as much as he might reasonably have hoped: He had been a certified naval physician, an explorer, a poet, a novelist, an essayist, an ethnographer, a linguist, a sinologist, an aesthetic theorist, and a few other things besides.

As a matter of fact, based on linguists, Bible scholars, historians and archaeologists are the places to go to find the facts of Christianity.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

Unfortunately there is no single brand of specialists — call them «hominists» — to whom one can turn for authoritative answers about man, as one might turn to linguists for information about languages or, if he had great faith, to meteorologists for understanding the weather.

In short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologian.

I know a linguist who thinks and has seen what he describes as a gift of «tongues», whereby some individuals pick up and learn to speak another language very rapidly, in a matter of days or weeks.

As the Mezzofanti of his age (Mezzofanti was a polyglot scholar of the eighteenth century, one of the greatest linguists of all times), Humboldt has continued to live in the consciousness of the German people.

Conceived as the introduction to an analysis of the Kawi language of Java, this book actually is the ripest fruit of the great linguist's interest in human speech and its products, an interest that lasted throughout his life.

I say a change is coming (the linguist Otto Jespersen seemed to think that in the 1920s as well people were saying «humanity» and «human being» more and more)-- and then I watch television or read the newspaper.

So, while he is not an empiricist, Hartshorne is no philosophical linguist or logician; he is an experientialist, interested in the principles of experience as such.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

A competent linguist who had enjoyed a distinguished career in the Holy See's diplomatic service, he was also a man of pastoral sensibilities, having done a lot of youth work as a young priest and curialist.

Jukka: I am not a linguist, but the name «Cumari o passarinho» roughly translates as «the little bird of Cumari.»

Instead of abandoning the Viking flora project altogether, Kool is now working with linguists to use plant names as a kind of substitute for DNA to trace the spread of their use, and how that use evolved.

Linguists do not consider taking in loanwords a major language change — rather, alterations in grammar or pronunciation are seen as more fundamental alterations.

Linguists recognize that languages naturally evolve over time and nobody advocates preserving a language as it is used in a freeze - frame.

Semaq Beri hunter - gatherers, who live in tropical forests on the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, name various odors as easily as they name colors, say psycholinguist Asifa Majid and linguist Nicole Kruspe.

«Most look exclusively at words, seen as something like the equivalent of the gene as a unit of analysis in genetics,» says Lyle Campbell, a historical linguist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

One standout chapter discusses how scientists might unravel the evolution of language — linguists turn out to be almost as disputatious as paleontologists — and another speculates on how natural selection might have shaped human biology in modern times.

There are roughly 1000 different words for «water,» as well as for «louse,» and linguists and language enthusiasts can view all the languages by geographic origin in an interactive map.

At first, Cruz served as a Russian linguist for a signals intelligence unit at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

A computer algorithm works almost as well as a trained linguist in reconstructing how dead «protolanguages» would have sounded, says a new study.

Rami Tzabar said the program «was inspired by a chance meeting with one of the contributors, the MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa, who talked about using animal behavior as a way of understanding the evolution of human language.

A native of Northern California, Maye knew as early as high school that she wanted to become a linguist.

As the data from such clever designs mounted, Spelke began to develop her theory of core knowledge, often inspired by or collaborating with colleagues such as noted Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, French mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist Stanislaus Dehaene and Harvard psychologist Susan CareAs the data from such clever designs mounted, Spelke began to develop her theory of core knowledge, often inspired by or collaborating with colleagues such as noted Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, French mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist Stanislaus Dehaene and Harvard psychologist Susan Careas noted Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, French mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist Stanislaus Dehaene and Harvard psychologist Susan Carey.

As for the Reich paper, many archaeologists and linguists praise the data on ancient migrations.

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.

On the linguists» previous visit, they recorded him telling a story nearly half an hour long, of how he was lost in Egypt for several years as a child.

ONE summer Elizabeth Barber, a linguist and archaeologist, chose ancient textiles as a topic for a short research paper.

As long as the grant money holds out, and as long as the people of Al - Sayyid will have them, the linguists will come back to the village at least twice a yeaAs long as the grant money holds out, and as long as the people of Al - Sayyid will have them, the linguists will come back to the village at least twice a yeaas the grant money holds out, and as long as the people of Al - Sayyid will have them, the linguists will come back to the village at least twice a yeaas long as the people of Al - Sayyid will have them, the linguists will come back to the village at least twice a yeaas the people of Al - Sayyid will have them, the linguists will come back to the village at least twice a year.