Sentences with phrase «linguist called»

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.

But back at the school, I kept hearing younger students switch between English and Warlpiri, something linguists call code - switching.

Not exact matches

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 parenthesis, the FA, in its familiar cack - handed way, had made a dog's dinner into enquiring whether Mourinho had called her the daughter of a whore, which it now seems he accepted that he did, engaging a linguist who duly and mistakenly reassured them that the Portuguese word which Mourinho used was filho rather than filha meaning son rather than daughter which in context made no sense at all.

The method, called computational Bayesian phylogenetics, forces researchers to explicitly quantify the uncertainty in the models, says linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University, a pioneer of the approach and co-author of the new study.

The way linguists compare words from descendant languages to reconstruct the parent language is called, appropriately, the comparative method.

He called this somewhat mystical rule book «deep structure,» and he used it to explain how language permits us to make «infinite use of finite media» — as one linguist has put it.

These observations had led some linguists to hypothesize that all of the world's languages reduce the distance between dependent words, something called dependency length minimization (DLM).

The mixing and matching of words and phrases is called a «merge» operation in linguist jargon.

The film follows Turing, a mathematical genius, as he leads a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, who are tasked with cracking the so - called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine.

Adams plays Louise Banks, an expert linguist who is called upon when mysterious spacecrafts touch down across the globe.

SYNOPSIS: Dr. Louise Banks, a celebrated linguist reeling from personal tragedy, is called in by the military to decode the language of an alien civilisation when a strange spacecraft lands in Montana... There's a human -LSB-...]

Baroness Coussins called for «a national plan to ensure the UK produces the linguists we need to become a world leader in global free trade and on the international stage.»

Harvard Professor Steven Pinker, one of America's foremost psycho - linguists reminded his 126,000 twitter followers about the «Bizarre chapter in educ politics: So - called bilingual education (= keep Eng away fm kids when they can best learn it)» and Francis Fukuyama, another very prominent intellectual, tweeted out my column to his own 29,000 followers, as did Debra Saunders of the SF Chronicle and numerous others.

To demonstrate that we (dialect coaches) have painstakingly defined what accents and dialects are, and as you can see by going to any dictionary to look them up, they are completely different than what linguists and dialect coaches call them.

For instance, every linguist and dialect coach (notice I didn't say ACCENT coach) defines a dialect as the variances in speech (including syntax, common, colloquial expressions as well as the differing ways they are pronounced)-- something every person on the planet who doesn't know better will call an «ACCENT»; i.e., Southern accents when compared to a Mid-West accent when compared to a general Brooklyn accent.

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.

A course I regret I was unable to take years ago was to proceed with a lawsuit against the government, calling upon the expert testimony linguists to prove that the abuse I had identified of both language and the legislative process was deliberate.