Sentences with phrase «by linguist»

It was created by linguist Marc Okrand, who has since written an opera in Klingon.

The language was fleshed out by linguist Marc Okrand and eventually extrapolated into a full language.

An «eggcorn» is a linguistic error in which the user idiosyncratically substitutes a word or phrase for a similar sounding word or phrase in their dialect, such as saying «for all intensive purposes» instead of «for all intents and purposes» — the term was coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum in response to a case linguist Mark Liberman was dealing with, wherein a woman referred to acorns as «egg corns».

Which is the lead to a great column in The Chronicle of Higher Education by linguist Geoffrey [go pronounce that if it's new to you] Pullum, he of Language Log fame.

He was also inspired by a linguist who was his colleague and friend in Jena.

Do we have an innate «grammar» of aesthetics analogous to the syntactic universals for languages proposed by linguist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

A study by linguist and Textio CEO Kieran Snyder, which I wrote about last summer, illustrates what the non-Sheryl Sandberg experience looks like for many women, not just Ellen Pao.

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.

A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden.

Research on human language published in Science usually relies on computational methods, and is often criticized by linguists.

In the first place, the modelling of the ethical practice totally misunderstood by the first westerner tibetologits of the XIXth century, analyzed briefly by the linguists, the practice of the debate is often perceived as a simple formal learning of the logic.

Adults with small children use a simplified version of language known as baby - talk (called «motherese» by some linguists) where certain words and syllables are greatly stressed and frequently repeated.

First — the percentage of human languages carefully studied by linguists is vanishingly small (particularly when we think about this from a historical perspective).

Turning now to language in the Blawgosphere, there has been a great debate by linguists over the use of the word «Blawg» to describe a legal blog.

Not exact matches

By working with meaningful word segments (what linguists call morphemes) like «Acu,» Barr says the company produces new words that are both meaningful and unique.

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.

Arrival follows the story of a linguist recruited by the military to explore a mysterious spacecraft after it lands on Earth.

With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name - dropping) array of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way of a revolutionary understanding of the imagination.

By the early 1980s, the organization's translator - linguists were laboring in 761 indigenous language projects and SIL members had published over 9,000 articles and books.

Pike also groomed a growing cadre of professional linguists in SIL by encouraging the organization's best minds to pursue doctoral degrees at top universities around the world.

The celebrated linguist George Lakoff has shown how our understanding of the world around us is largely framed by the metaphors that we use to describe it.

You can find information about a language by collecting a corpus of data — for instance, the Chinese linguist studying my language could ask me various questions about it and collect the answers.

«For a piece of software that's used by hundreds of thousands of academics worldwide, it really is appalling,» says Mark Dingemanse, a linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, who has used some of these programs to publish and review papers.

The study, led by evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, also marks a milestone in collaboration between geneticists and linguists, who for years stayed in their separate camps.

The first such computational efforts, done by biologists borrowing linguistic data, drew harsh responses from many linguists.

Other linguists argue that the computational models, built for genes that can only be inherited, deal poorly with languages that spread by diffusion.

Second prize: The Food Lab: Better cooking through science by J. Kenji Lopez - Alt (signed) The Language of Food: A linguist reads the menu by Dan Jurafsky

Second prize will also include a copy of The Language of Food: A linguist reads the menu by Dan Jurafsky, a linguist and computer scientist at Stanford University.

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.

The education researchers and linguists digitized roughly 3,000 texts from 35 textbooks approved by the state of Baden - Württemberg.

First prize: The Food Lab: Better cooking through science by J. Kenji Lopez - Alt (signed) The Language of Food: A linguist reads the menu by Dan Jurafsky Liquid Intelligence: The art and science of the perfect cocktail by Dave Arnold

Linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University, meanwhile, points out that the societies covered by this study distribute power through the male line, and the opposite correlation may be found in societies run by females.

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.

That's the conclusion of linguists and a geographer, who have together identified 18 Aboriginal stories — many of which were transcribed by early settlers before the tribes that told them succumbed to murderous and disease - spreading immigrants from afar — that they say accurately described geographical features that predated the last post-ice age rising of the seas.

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 Carey.

A team led by University of California, Berkeley, linguists Andrew Garrett and Will Chang employed the language database and evolutionary methods previously used by Gray to create a family tree of the Indo - European languages from their first origins in PIE.

In 1873 the president of the Philological Society of London declared that linguists «shall do more by tracing the historical growth of one single work - a-day tongue, than by filling wastepaper baskets with reams of paper covered with speculations on the origin of all tongues.»

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

For instance, the languages of the Pueblo tribes around Santa Fe are spoken by so few people — just a few hundred at most — that by many linguists» estimates they should have gone extinct long ago.

But by studying many different languages, linguists find the common factor is the binary distinction.

These corpora are the result of generations of work, much of it by Penn linguists, to parse written texts and annotate parts of speech.

While most linguists have assumed that such a distinctive grammatical feature must have been driven to dominance by some selective pressure, the Penn team's analysis questions that assumption.

The linguist Noam Chomsky, the most famous living scientist by some measures, has also repeatedly criticized social media for reducing serious public discourse to, well, 140 characters.

While most linguists accept Chomsky's theory, his critics hold an alternate view: that we learn to speak merely by trial and error, building up from memory the information and associations we need to assemble words into meaningful sentences.

The practice is now viewed as a novelty feat by many linguists, and Everett has demonstrated the process for audiences, meeting the speaker of a mystery language for the first time on stage.

In the film, a team of experts is assembled to investigate, and among the chosen individuals is a linguist, played by actress Amy Adams.

The name was suggested by Kapiolani Community College linguist Nawa'a Napoleon as a tribute to the Polynesian sailors who crossed the Pacific, navigating by the stars.

A cognitive scientist and linguist by training, I'm interested in how people use and understand language.

A probable pre-Clovis age for Monte Verde in Chile and reports by geneticists and linguists that human populations may have migrated to the Americas as early as 35 kya seem to demand a rethinking of Pleistocene peopling models.»

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