Sentences with phrase «helping linguists»

In addition to simply helping linguists understand how people spoke in the past, studying ancient languages can perhaps answer historical questions.

A certification program helps linguists boost their translation skills as well as their knowledge of the industries TransPerfect serves.

This is an area where mathematicians can help linguists out.

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Lionbridge uses more than 100,000 certified linguists to help more than 800 companies handle their translation needs.

Philippe is recruiting archeologists and linguists to work on a glass «Rosetta» plaque to help our descendants decipher our messages.

While Vulchanova is a linguist, her team included colleagues and students from the university's Department of Psychology and the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature to help with the research.

In an ongoing debate, psychologists argue introverts are less susceptible to distraction and have better long - term memory, while linguists claim the extroverts» sociable and outgoing attitudes, as well as their high tolerance to risk, help with learning a foreign language.

Gregory Iverson, a linguist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, says the new study, and follow - up work, may help answer questions such as how brain injuries can cause speech loss, or even why some people learn languages more easily than others.

Linguists define prosody as the intonation and rhythm of spoken language, features that help to highlight sentence structure and therefore make the message easier to understand.

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.

Linguists from the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association have helped educators create the program, as well as teaching and learning resources such as storybooks.

He sought help from a linguist friend, who confirmed for Laurent that the language barrier was keeping students from passing the exam.

Turley said the results shouldn't come as a surprise, since linguists know nurturing a student in one language can help him or her better understand another language.

Determined to report the whole truth, Ana enlists her cousin Beatriz, a blacklisted linguist, to help her find the mysterious «Octavian,» who codes his love letters with literary quotes and opera characters.

Surprisingly, he gets some help from his ex-wife, Lisa Hawkes, a brilliant Russian linguist and CIA covert agent.

Some researchers suggest that, in addition to increasing comprehension by sharpening the listener's attention, the placement of verbal fillers before new thoughts or ideas also helps to organize spoken language for listeners and give it a type of structure.95 Some linguists go even further and argue that verbal fillers are necessary elements in spoken discourse and that removing them for the sake of an ideal of fluency actually shortchanges listeners.96 In support of this theory, linguists point to the comprehension problems listeners encounter when written work is read aloud.

Linguist Alison Long helped translate a best - selling novel into the latest BBC television drama.

In another film, «Arrival,» Adams is a linguist brought into an extraterrestrial situation to help communicate with aliens.

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