Sentences with phrase «linguists know»

Turley said the results shouldn't come as a surprise, since linguists know nurturing a student in one language can help him or her better understand another language.

While policy - makers and politicians in the UK might struggle to quantify the benefits of language learning in economic terms, linguists know that the advantages include, but go well beyond, immediate economic gains.

The LORELEI program's goal is to develop technology for languages about which translators and linguists know nothing.

Not exact matches

(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.

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.

(Fluent in eight languages, with a reading knowledge of another ten, he was the most astonishingly gifted linguist I have ever known.)

(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.

A native of Northern California, Maye knew as early as high school that she wanted to become a linguist.

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.

When Wendy Sandler, a linguist at the University of Haifa, first heard about Al - Sayyid in the late 1990s, she knew at once that she had to investigate.

Linguists estimate that between 20 per cent and 50 per cent of the 6000 languages now spoken are no longer being taught to children, and will become extinct in the next century.

Linguists have known for decades that children are skilled at absorbing certain tricky elements of language, such as irregular past participles (examples of which, in English, include «gone» and «been») or complicated verb tenses like the subjunctive.

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.

«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.

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

Baby Talk and Monkey Talk V. Chase, 2 June 2006 Jessica Maye, a linguist at Northwestern University, wants to know why babies are so much better at acquiring language than monkeys — or even human adults.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Linguist Nicholas Ostler would appear to be that singular type of British scholar who combines daunting erudition with an equal measure of eccentricity (one of the two dozen or so languages he knows is Chibcha, an ancient South American tongue).

Adults with small children use a simplified version of language known as baby - talk (called «motherese» by some linguists) where certain words and syllables are greatly stressed and frequently repeated.

The Great Debate About Art by Roy Harris, who was an Oxford University linguist, attempts to provide a response to the «historical residue of empty questions that contemporary society can no longer answer» after the modernist implosion of Art as a cohesive category.

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

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