Sentences with phrase «linguist studying»

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.

Other linguists study semantics — how words are used to convey meaning, whereas still others study syntax — how words are put together to form sentences.

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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.

We partnered with sales linguist Steve W. Martin on a comprehensive study of 230 B2B buyers, with the goal of pointing the spotlight on buyers themselves.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Scientists, particularly linguists and psychologists, continue to study the phenomena of IDS and the mechanisms that benefit infants acquiring language.

Linguist, Professor Scott Jarvis, Ohio University, USA, says, «This study was perhaps the most impressive yet on SFL reading abilities.

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.

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.

Suppose you're an anthropological linguist from China and you want to study my language.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Linguist Wendy Sandler of the University of Haifa in Israel first explored this evolution while studying Al - Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) in the early 2000s.

Plotkin hopes that linguists will find the notion of drift and his statistical tests to be useful, because they allow researchers to study the patterns and timing of change in a single language rather than having to compare languages.

In a study appearing in the September 2015 issue of Language, three linguists look at intonation (a key part of prosody) in ASL and find that native ASL signers learn intonation in much the same way that users of spoken languages do.

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

«This is the first really solid statistical study I've seen which shows principles about language decline that we've know about, but hadn't been able to put together in a sound way,» says Leanne Hinton, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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 his penetrating study of language, MIT linguist Noam Chomsky has given us a framework that is to culture what the genetic code is to life.

And he knew whom he wanted to study with: Ray Jackendoff, a linguist then at Brandeis University who had done some of the most important research into language's hierarchy.

«There's something about our brains that makes it possible to take advantage of the things you've already paid attention to and to keep paying attention to them,» even when you are focused on something else, suggests Melissa Baese - Berk, a linguist at the University of Oregon and a co-author of the study.

The linguists» continuing research is following up on this earlier study that posited a back - migration for the Yeniseian language family.

Nheengatú time reference is just one of the types of combinations of spoken and visual language that some linguists are beginning to suspect may be more common than is currently known; since historically many languages have been studied only based on written words and audio recordings, future scientific studies of video recordings may find new and unexpected types combinations of spoken and visual language that may have been previously invisible.

In one study, published in 2015 in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, linguists found that people who took breaks from learning new sounds performed just as well as those who took no breaks, as long as the sounds continued to play in the background.

And, Singh notes, linguists are now replicating the study's findings in French and Japanese.

«Linguists explore the evolution of color in new study.»

To conduct the study, the researchers used four large databases of sentences that have been parsed grammatically: one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists), and a Chinese - language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

Louise Banks is a communications expert, she's spent years studying linguists and is considered the...

This is at odds with the findings of numerous linguists who have shown that knowing more than one language can provide the speaker with cognitive flexibility and an expanded basis for other fields of study.

In a 2011 article published in The Chronicle for Higher Education, we learn that in the late 20th century, the study of metaphor became increasingly popular with «philosophers, linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and others...» Some believe that metaphor is «the concept at the crux of all thought, and maybe all human understanding.»

These are people who aren't supposed to remember what it's like to even smell books,» said Naomi S. Baron, an American University linguist who studies digital communication.

After serving as an Arabic Linguist in the U.S. Army, Tanisha Robinson studied Arabic and Political Theory at The Ohio State University.

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

For years, linguists resisted this world, choosing instead to define disfluencies as «errors» that needed to be eliminated from the study of pure language.10 More recently, linguists have acknowledged — and at times even embraced — disfluency as an integral part of how we communicate.

These differences in usage have led linguists to study the verbal fillers uh and um as unique phenomena.

62 Serious study of verbal fillers produced a wealth of scientific data, and while linguists disagree on the details, a consensus emerged in which uh and um are viewed as signals that perform communicative functions.

How to get there: Aside from experience in related fields like psychology and sociology, extensive knowledge of legal procedures is an essential trait for any Forensic Linguist — so taking courses or studying for a postgrad is a great way to stand out from the crowd if you're struggling to break into this position.

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Linguists have studied populations who move their hands when they speak.