Sentences with phrase «linguist who»

Suzanne Deliscar is a Canadian lawyer - linguist who translates in the French - English and Spanish - English language pairs.

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.

Meredith is an applied linguist who has spent the last seven years working across the language learning industry in various roles from teaching to curriculum development and teacher - training.

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

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.

He was also inspired by a linguist who was his colleague and friend in Jena.

So I contacted a linguist who reconstructed the language that could have been spoken in south Tyrol 5000 years ago.

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.

A competent linguist who had enjoyed a distinguished career in the Holy See's diplomatic service, he was also a man of pastoral sensibilities, having done a lot of youth work as a young priest and curialist.

I know a linguist who thinks and has seen what he describes as a gift of «tongues», whereby some individuals pick up and learn to speak another language very rapidly, in a matter of days or weeks.

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.

The company's employees speak about 12 different languages, «but other than that, we leave the language specialties to professional linguists who offer over 180 different dialects of services from over 4,000 linguists globally,» says Buckstein.

«Linguists who've had extensive field experience can do this.

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.

However, some linguists who have a too simplistic view of language (such as regarding some use of language as grammatically «incorrect»), and some might believe that brute force pattern recognition might lead to any insights (which they can not, since «recognition» presupposes a «correct» or «ideal» language).

60 Linguists who rejected «filler» as an «uninformative default term» instead began to describe uh and um as «planners» 61 or «speech management phenomena.»

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«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.

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.

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.

(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.

The origins of structuralism lie in the work of the early 20th - century linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who attempted to analyze the system of relationships within a language that makes acts of speech possible.

(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.

When he reached the prison camp he found a man who spoke Russian, and three and a half years later Yeager had learned enough Russian to become a linguist.

Mecki Allen is a studio potter who started making ceramics seriously about three years ago, leaving behind a high - pressured job as a linguist in law and publishing.

Chief Linguist of the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Nana Nsuase Poku Agyemang III who outlined preparations ahead of the burial in a press conference in Kumasi on Friday January 6 warned the public and residents of Kumasi to stay indoors between the hours of 8 pm and 4 am on Thursday January, 19 to allow them carry out the burial.

Semaq Beri hunter - gatherers, who live in tropical forests on the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, name various odors as easily as they name colors, say psycholinguist Asifa Majid and linguist Nicole Kruspe.

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.

Linguist R.M.W. Dixon of James Cook University, Cairns, in Australia, who made his name in the 1960s and 1970s doing fieldwork on Aboriginal languages, says these languages are so unique that new theories of linguistic change must be invented to explain them.

«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 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.

«In developmental psychology there has long been a trade - off between gathering lots of data from a small number of children or a small amount of data from a much larger number of children,» says Harvard University linguist Steven Pinker, who proposed a similar idea several years back.

Rami Tzabar said the program «was inspired by a chance meeting with one of the contributors, the MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa, who talked about using animal behavior as a way of understanding the evolution of human language.

That's the conclusion of linguists and a geographer, who have together identified 18 Aboriginal stories — many of which were transcribed by early settlers before the tribes that told them succumbed to murderous and disease - spreading immigrants from afar — that they say accurately described geographical features that predated the last post-ice age rising of the seas.

Carol Padden, a linguist from the University of California, San Diego, who is deaf, starts to sign to him, using gestures international enough that they can be readily understood.

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.

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.

The linguist Noam Chomsky, who published pioneering ideas about language in the 1950s, offered a famous example of such a sentence: «Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.»

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.

She is one of two linguists (and one of two former interns) who now serve on the six - member scientist - investigator team.

In the past three decades, the linguist from the University of Manchester, UK, has spent a total of seven years living with the Pirahã in the Amazon rainforest and is one of just three outsiders, along with his ex-wife and a missionary who spent time with them in the 1960s and 1970s, who is fluent in their language.

Taking inspiration from linguists, who view spoken words as syllables that can be infinitely recombined, we seek to discover the «syllables» of behavior — and the patterns of brain activity that generate them.

The name was suggested by Kapiolani Community College linguist Nawa'a Napoleon as a tribute to the Polynesian sailors who crossed the Pacific, navigating by the stars.

Built in 2008 by computational linguists, software engineers, grammar nerds, and language lovers in general, Grammarly was founded in 2008 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn, Grammarly, who were dissatisfied with the typical spell - checkers you find in word processors.

Gladys Yang was a famous British translator who married a Chinese linguist Yang Xianyi — in 1941, this couple translated the best Chinese novel of all time: Dream of the Red Chamber.

I wish to find someone special who is thinking of starting Friendly and open - minded, I am kind by nature and can not stand rudeness or cruelty of any kind to any living being professional linguist, I can speak up to 6 la..

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With representative voices for each period, from those who covered it to those who survived it, Belzberg illustrates how the early efforts of linguist - turned - activist Raphael Lemkin resonate through the modern attempts to curtail ethnic violence and establish a global framework for prosecuting its most egregious offenders.

Citro (Female Human, over 100 years old): an eccentric old woman, who happens to be a linguist (one of the few people who can read the language from the Human - Asmodian War era).

That mixture reaches a perfect alchemy during Arrival, which follows a character — Adams» linguist expert — who would probably provide walk - on exposition in any number of lesser sci - fi movies.

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.