Sentences with phrase «for linguists»

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He attended Leeds Modern School and learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, during which he attended Cambridge University.

Private schools have pledged to support a new national teacher training centre for linguists to stave off a «crisis in modern foreign language skills», writes Jess Staufenberg.

One fascinating question for linguists is whether all aspects of a language evolve as an integrated system with all aspects (grammar, morphology, phonology, lexicon) sharing the same history over time or whether different aspects of a language show different histories.

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.

According to linguists at the AAAS, the loss of language is bad not only for linguists but for all humanity.

Anwar recounted this for the linguists entirely in the village sign language.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/time-to-say-goodbye-lyrics-sarah-brightman.html or for the linguists in you....

This sleek look is Tom Ford, no surprise given Adams starred in the designer's Nocturnal Animals this year, and we suppose that made more sense than using Arrival (her other film this season) as inspiration for a Linguist Chic ensemble.

To think that Claudette was «crazy» proved to be a poor choice of words, especially for a linguist.

Not exact matches

«The State Department has hemorrhaged Korean linguists and former negotiators,» Douglas H. Paal, an Asia scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, wrote in a tweet.

Recognizing the growing need for on - demand interpretation services, Munks, along with linguist Mike McFerrin, cofounded LanguageLine Solutions in 1982.

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.

Trump may have been aiming for the phrase «military precision,» linguist Ben Zimmer told Business Insider, but that wouldn't necessarily excuse him, either.

Linguists and psychologists are still arguing about this one, but it's commonly accepted that learning a second language is easier for most people when they're younger, generally before puberty.

France's foreign intelligence service is bolstering recruitment to counter Islamist militants and cyber criminals, but it is looking for computer wizards and linguists not would - be James Bonds.

Top of the vacancy list at France's DGSE, the equivalent of America's CIA or Britain's MI6, are posts for young information technology gurus and linguists who master the finer points of Russian, Chinese, or Farsi, widely used in Iran and Afghanistan.

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.

John Paul was not just personally holy and personally interesting - poet, philosopher, essayist, linguist, a man with a gift for friendship, a man of prayer, a courageous man with massive moral integrity matched with humour and greatintellectual gifts.

No respected linguist anywhere in the World traces languages back to the Tower of Babel, the creationists» explanation for different languages.

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 1934, Townsend established a summer linguistic course in rural Arkansas for training these translator - linguists.

It used to be a strong verb, too — the German linguist's term for verbs that don't fool around with piddly dental past tenses, but change their own darned vowels, take that!

OK, Don, since you've decided that etymology trumps usage for giving a word's meaning (a truly ghastly principle no linguist would support) and have enlightened us all with the alpha privative breakdown, perhaps you'd like to explain for us the - ism part.

No respected linguist anywhere in the World traces languages back to the Tower of Babble (the creationists explanation for different languages).

No respected linguist anywhere in the World traces languages back to the Tower of Babel, the creationists» simplistic and patently absurd explanation for different languages.

Held at local elementary schools and churches, Little Linguists Spanish classes are offered for kids from toddlers to grade - schoolers.

Of course, how «real» these numbers are is for mathematicians, linguists etc. to figure out.

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.

Its name commemorates the third U.S. president, a polymath statesman; an inventor, architect, and linguist; an indispensable patron of science, discovery, and higher education; and a communicator for the ages.

Meanwhile, linguists are concerned for the longevity of local languages.

David Bamman, a computer scientist and linguist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, got the idea for the research last summer when he noticed how quickly false rumours of the death of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin disappeared from China's Twitter equivalent Sina Weibo.

How do linguists go about searching for these hidden principles?

This myth, from the Iwaidja people of northwestern Australia, has more than a grain of truth, for the peopling and language origins of Australia are closely entwined, says linguist Nicholas Evans of Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.

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.

Linguists today should concentrate on discovering the rules and principles that you, for example, are using right now when you interpret and comprehend the sentences I'm producing and when you produce your own.

«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 papeFor 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 papefor 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.

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

Many linguists say there are so many Inuit dialects and so many ways to parse a word that it's like counting how many words Europeans have for love.

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.

For Vyvyan Evans, a cognitive linguist, studying emoji entails exploring everything from the nature of communication to the evolutionary origins of language to how meaning arises in the human mind.

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

Despite this rich variety — for comparison, Europe contains about 280 languages — linguists have only analyzed the grammatical structures of a fraction of the South Pacific island's languages.

Deciphering an unknown language is a challenge even for veteran linguists.

This leads some linguists to think that they may have found a new model for the evolution of language.

Psychologist Asifa Majid from Radboud University Nijmegen and linguist Niclas Burenhult from Lund University Sweden find new evidence for smell language in the Malay Peninsula.

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?

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

Paul Heggarty, a linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, questions Garrett's methods, arguing that, for example, linguists can not be sure if the Latin attested to in written documents really was the direct ancestor of later Romance languages, rather than some dialect of Latin for which no record remains.