Sentences with phrase «linguists do»

We could go one step further with this, and consider assemblage the same way that linguists do, comparing it to the concept of a remix in music (which is something that has already been done by Nicholas Bourriaud in Post-Prodction).

«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.

Linguists do not consider taking in loanwords a major language change — rather, alterations in grammar or pronunciation are seen as more fundamental alterations.

Not exact matches

But we do not want to masquerade as linguists and be anything else but that.

One of the most likely instances of this is Jesus» warning to an overeager disciple that whereas the birds have nests and the foxes have holes, the «son of man» does not have a place to lay his head; the meaning may well be, if these linguists are correct, «this man.»

It used to be a strong verb, too — the German linguist's term for verbs that don't fool around with piddly dental past tenses, but change their own darned vowels, take that!

Chemists, linguists, mathematicians, historians, behaviorists and phenomenologists are likely to view the larger world in terms of their own particular world and to suspect that genuine knowledge requires something like what they do.

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.

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.

All of this attention only adds further weight to the long - standing perception that Brits just aren't «good» at learning languages - a commonly held belief that is just not true - every one of us is an expert linguist - after all, we have all done pretty well at learning at least one language - our mother tongue.

In 2002, a team of linguists and historians argued that the script did not represent language at all, but religious or political imagery.

How do linguists go about searching for these hidden principles?

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.

The first such computational efforts, done by biologists borrowing linguistic data, drew harsh responses from many linguists.

But the program does a good enough job that it may be able to give linguists a head start, the statistician added.

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?

In 1873 the president of the Philological Society of London declared that linguists «shall do more by tracing the historical growth of one single work - a-day tongue, than by filling wastepaper baskets with reams of paper covered with speculations on the origin of all tongues.»

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.

Florian Coulmas, a linguist at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany, agrees that an evolutionary framework doesn't work well for written language, but says there's another, simpler explanation: Once a script is introduced, people tend to follow it diligently to avoid confusion — a concept known as path dependence.

Claire Kramsch, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, tells him the question should not be «How many languages do you know?»

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.

(No well - documented languages start sentences or clauses with the object, although some linguists have jokingly suggested that Klingon might do so.)

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

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While I don't discriminate against any particular women, I still like to go back to my roots and date Russian (and other ex-Soviet Union) women every now As a linguist, I often get asked about best ways to learn languages.

Director: Michel Gondry Cast: Michel Gondy, Noam Chomsky Certificate: E Running Time: 88 mins Synopsis: A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in...

Unlike yourself, I am a linguist that does understand the meanings of words.

While there has been first - class work by university linguists, arguably not enough has been done to translate this into effective teaching practice.

What does it mean to think like a historian, a biologist, a mathematician, a linguist?

Linguists define the concept somewhat differently, as a sensible way of doing things or the avoidance of extremes.

So don't worry if you're not a linguist, give it a go, the children love it!

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.

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.

«A young native linguist named Jessie Little Doe Baird got her linguistics degree at MIT and has been working on a dictionary of the language and language classes,» Brooks told me.

The way to discredit an idea in Science is to show it doesn't explain observed data more simply (and any decent mathematical linguist can explain that simplicity is indeed a measurable quality of an utterance, if you're in a mood to be bored) and universally with fewer exceptions than another idea.

I want the best doctor, I don't want the linguist.

Mulley, a programmer and linguist, did the hard work of taming the data so that he could serve it up in a way that's useful.

as a linguistic filler that indicates the speaker is surprised or didn't know something is something linguists consider a universal human word.

Linguists say emojis convey a tone that simple texts don't.