Sentences with word «linguist»

The Washington Post has a fascinating article on the work of linguists who are looking at every line of dialogue from Disney princess movies and analyzing them for their representations of women.

Amy Adams stars as Dr. Louise Banks, an expert linguist who is recruited by the military to communicate with aliens who have landed on the planet and determine wether or not they come in peace.

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?

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.

«How to Speak Atlantean» (2 minutes) is a featurette with linguist Marc Okrand who came up with the language exclusively for the film.

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.

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

To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.

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.

ARRIVAL United States, 2016 Opening Film, 116 min Director — Denis Villeneuve When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team — lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams)-- are brought together to investigate.

«They weren't linguists,» according to Darolyn Davis, who handled crisis communications for the district during that period.

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.

Though the site is basic, bear in mind that these materials are high - quality, designed by professional linguists with the goal of learner fluency.

It therefore seems appropriate to have the perspective of a trained linguist on sections 5 and 6 of...

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.

When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team — lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams)-- are brought together to investigate.

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

One expert with the answers is Neil Cohn, an American linguist based at Tilburg University in The Netherlands.

Still, its confirmation must come from other linguists.»

He therefore sought out the advice of Edward Sapir, a leading linguist at Yale University.

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

They even have a full - time team of computational linguists who have been working on and improving the algorithm every day for the past six years.

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.

In Arrival, Amy Adams plays Louise Banks, an expert linguist tasked with communicating with aliens who land on Earth, to figure out what they want before their presence kickstarts World War III.

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.

«What we do is very different from what linguists do,» says Antonio Moreno, vice president of Agnitio, the Spanish company that produces Batvox, the most widely used ASR system, according to INTERPOL.

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.

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.

It's an argument made by Berkeley linguist George Lakoff, among others, and a key point in climate communicators» lessons on how to — and how not to — talk about that dreaded «climate change» term.

MIT linguist Noam Chomsky asserted that the way children acquire language is so effortless that it must have a biological foundation.

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

• Served as experienced linguist partnered with U.S. Military tactical team to gather intelligence from local sources.

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The only answer is to become linguists, in fact, not theory, and deliver the real goods.»

Amy Adams plays Dr Louise Banks, a renowned linguist called upon to initiate communication between the human race and the newly - arrived aliens who've parked their massive spaceships in a dozen locations around the globe.

It will feature Adams («American Hustle») as an expert linguist recruited by the military to determine whether a group of aliens crash - landing on Earth come in peace or are a threat.

In a recap of his experience at the time, Stanford linguist John Rickford criticized the media for promoting a simplistic narrative.

At 25, Cruz enlisted in the USMC, serving as an Asian - Pacific cryptologic linguist working on «top secret» projects, he says.

Speaking at the Council, the Chief Linguist of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Nana Nsuase Poku, said the committee investigating the incident should regularly brief them on its findings.

When it comes to languages, the Pama - Nyungan tree «gives us the first and only hypothesis of the higher - level branching of the Pama - Nyungan family,» says Harold Koch, a historical linguist at ANU who was not involved in the Nature study, although he was Bowern's undergraduate adviser.

On Oct. 3, Brampton lawyer - linguist Suzanne Deliscar will present a free «Ask the Lawyer» day program at the Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women... Read more

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

The very first book we studied was new to me; a collection of essays by well - known writers and linguists about how we use and mis - use words, co-opting our language for political, marketing, and ideological purposes.

A former enlisted Chinese linguist in the military, Skelton then spent a year in China as a foreign area officer in training.