Sentences with phrase «linguists find»

But by studying many different languages, linguists find the common factor is the binary distinction.
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.
Seeking language, a linguist found an unexpected story.
In a setup reminiscent of «Arrival,» in which Amy Adams» linguist finds herself at a military base established in the shadow of a strange and otherworldly and perhaps destructive something, Lena is taken to a secret government facility teeming with doctors, scientists and military personnel, all trying to understand and combat that inexplicable and expanding force in the woods, which seems to be on a course to consume and destroy the planet.
Linguists found a link between words and the climate in which it evolved, and the findings will be presented at the Acoustical Society of America.

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As a matter of fact, based on linguists, Bible scholars, historians and archaeologists are the places to go to find the facts of Christianity.
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.
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.
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.
A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden.
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.
This leads some linguists to think that they may have found a new model for the evolution of language.
Psychologist Asifa Majid from Radboud University Nijmegen and linguist Niclas Burenhult from Lund University Sweden find new evidence for smell language in the Malay Peninsula.
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.
What critics like English linguist Geoffrey Sampson, author of Educating Eve: The «Language Instinct» Debate, seem to find most irksome is Pinker's wholehearted promotion of a linguistic model that views the human capacity for learning language as distinct from other abilities, such as building bridges or writing symphonies.
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.
And, Singh notes, linguists are now replicating the study's findings in French and Japanese.
April 26, 2006 «Uniquely human» component of language found in gregarious birds Although linguists have argued that certain patterns of language organization are the exclusive province of humans — perhaps the only uniquely human component of language — researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego have discovered the same capacity to recognize such patterns and distinguish between them in Sturnus vulgaris, the common European starling.
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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.
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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.
Only 4.4 per cent of pupils took a GCSE in two languages, the report found, which «threatens the continued supply of teachers and professional linguists».
Determined to report the whole truth, Ana enlists her cousin Beatriz, a blacklisted linguist, to help her find the mysterious «Octavian,» who codes his love letters with literary quotes and opera characters.
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To find out why read this interview with Amanda Derocher and Matt Dewald of Linguists On The Loose.
An American linguist named Swadesh reasoned that if you could identify these basic, stubborn word - concepts you could (using an assumption about the rate of linguistic change) find commonalities and divergences among languages, allowing linguists to date the points at which one language or language family branched away from another.
As the late linguist Göran Kjellmer explained, «A lecture that is read aloud from the written page is often difficult to take in when its delivery lacks the verbal guides and signposts that we more or less subconsciously expect to find in speech.»
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