Sentences with phrase «linguists from»

Prepared continuing education curriculum, made presentations, engaged in conversational exercises, and participated in curriculum development, for teaching professional military linguists from all military services.

With that information and the location data provided from Twitter, Grieve and Nini, forensic linguists from Aston University and the University of Manchester respectively, determined what the top 100,000 words were in the collected tweets and identified how often each word was used in every county in the United States.

«I look forward to networking with certified linguists from the Georgia Commission of Interpreters to assist me in several other languages,» Obermeier says.

Two hundred linguists from the American Dialect Society have declared the singular «they» as word of the year.

Linguists from the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association have helped educators create the program, as well as teaching and learning resources such as storybooks.

With another evolutionary biologist and two linguists from UPenn, he analyzed three databases of historical English together containing more than 400 million words and ranging from 1100 C.E. to the 21st century.

A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden.

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

There is American Sign Language, used by one of the visitors, a deaf linguist from California.

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.

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.

Early in 2007, The Times published an article by a freelance writer, John Collins Rudolf, recounting a visit to a newly identified island off the east coast of Greenland, dubbed Warming Island by Dennis Schmitt, an Arctic adventurer, composer and linguist from Berkeley, Calif..

Not exact matches

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.

(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.

In short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologian.

(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.

Held at local elementary schools and churches, Little Linguists Spanish classes are offered for kids from toddlers to grade - schoolers.

David Bamman, a computer scientist and linguist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, got the idea for the research last summer when he noticed how quickly false rumours of the death of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin disappeared from China's Twitter equivalent Sina Weibo.

This myth, from the Iwaidja people of northwestern Australia, has more than a grain of truth, for the peopling and language origins of Australia are closely entwined, says linguist Nicholas Evans of Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.

Linguists had long noted that most languages across Australia draw from the same set of sounds, and that their verbs and pronouns share similar patterns of construction.

Given these similarities, linguists would expect the languages to share many cognates, or words derived from a common ancestor.

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

The education researchers and linguists digitized roughly 3,000 texts from 35 textbooks approved by the state of Baden - Württemberg.

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.

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

«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.

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.

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.

As the data from such clever designs mounted, Spelke began to develop her theory of core knowledge, often inspired by or collaborating with colleagues such as noted Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, French mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist Stanislaus Dehaene and Harvard psychologist Susan Carey.

A team led by University of California, Berkeley, linguists Andrew Garrett and Will Chang employed the language database and evolutionary methods previously used by Gray to create a family tree of the Indo - European languages from their first origins in PIE.

Although it's too early to know what the model will reveal, linguists say it already may have implications for understanding how quickly key elements of language, from complex words to grammar, have evolved.

As the linguists wrote in their first major paper on the village, «In the space of one generation from its inception, systematic grammatical structure has emerged in the language.»

There is Hebrew: two of the linguists are from an Israeli university, and many men in Al - Sayyid speak Hebrew as well.

Historical linguists have been borrowing techniques from biological taxonomy, including models based on genetics, for years (7 September, p 32).

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.

While most linguists accept Chomsky's theory, his critics hold an alternate view: that we learn to speak merely by trial and error, building up from memory the information and associations we need to assemble words into meaningful sentences.

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.

«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.

Just as biologists reconstruct extinct species, and archaeologists reconstruct ancient societies, linguists can reconstruct the pronunciation of ancient from modern words and show which languages have developed from the same ancestor.

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.

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.

This «express train» picture fit with linguists» models, in which Austronesian languages spread from East Asia into Oceania and were distinct from Papuan languages in Melanesia.

Instead it looks like at least some of the processes that cognitive psychologists and linguists have historically attributed to the application of rules may instead emerge from the association of speech sounds with words we already know,» says David Gow, PhD, of the MGH Department of Neurology.

From the names of things, a linguist can then work their way towards actions, and how to express relationships between objects, Everett said.

Still, its confirmation must come from other linguists.»

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.

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.

Working back to the ancestor, an exercise based on the sequence of DNA letters in genes, resembles the way that linguists reconstruct the words of vanished mother - tongues from their living descendant languages.

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).