Sentences with phrase «says linguist»

So nothing, says this linguist.

Words mold many aspects of thought, says linguist Paul Kay, but not all aspects.

The method, called computational Bayesian phylogenetics, forces researchers to explicitly quantify the uncertainty in the models, says linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University, a pioneer of the approach and co-author of the new study.

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.

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.

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.

By working with meaningful word segments (what linguists call morphemes) like «Acu,» Barr says the company produces new words that are both meaningful and unique.

Many linguists and computer programmers would say that the knowledge of a natural language can never be reduced to dictionaries and grammars.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

You seem to «privilege» your sense of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy into your sense of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service of my attitude, outlook, frame of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational belief & bias system — and my unconscious, of which my consciousness is merely tip - of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip of the iceberg.

I say a change is coming (the linguist Otto Jespersen seemed to think that in the 1920s as well people were saying «humanity» and «human being» more and more)-- and then I watch television or read the newspaper.

In some cases, teachers with personal interests, say a historian, linguist, anthropologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, or a returned missionary, persuade the college administrators to let them develop courses on world religions under the titles of the history of religions or comparative religion.

«In the U.S., there is basically one party,» leftist linguist / philosopher Noam Chomsky once said: «the business party.

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.

Linguist, Professor Scott Jarvis, Ohio University, USA, says, «This study was perhaps the most impressive yet on SFL reading abilities.

He stressed that supporting language teaching in primary schools was having an effect, saying he was «confident these changes will deliver a new generation of linguists».

J. Mark Kenoyer, a linguist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, says Rao's paper is worth publishing, but time will tell if the technique sheds light on the nature of Indus script.

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.

«Most look exclusively at words, seen as something like the equivalent of the gene as a unit of analysis in genetics,» says Lyle Campbell, a historical linguist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

«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.

Many linguists say there are so many Inuit dialects and so many ways to parse a word that it's like counting how many words Europeans have for love.

A computer algorithm works almost as well as a trained linguist in reconstructing how dead «protolanguages» would have sounded, says a new study.

«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.

«Every single speaker on Earth will have their own specific linguistic variants,» says Andreea Calude, a linguist at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

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.

«It's quite gobsmacking to think that a story could be told for 10,000 years,» Nicholas Reid, a linguist at Australia's University of New England specializing in Aboriginal Australian languages, said.

«Linguists usually assume that when a change occurs in a language, there must have been a directional force that caused it,» said Joshua Plotkin, professor of biology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and senior author on the paper.

«One of the great early American linguists, Leonard Bloomfield, said that you can never see a language change, that the change is invisible,» said Robin Clark, a coauthor and professor of linguistics in Penn Arts and Sciences.

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.

Some linguists cross over among specialties, and others take «a broad approach in terms of looking at the same aspect of language structure in a number of different ways,» says Goldrick.

«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.

«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.

The linguists gave the subjects a series of statements along with pictures, and asked them to say whether the statements were true or false.

«Dialects are two versions of a language that are still mutually comprehensible,» says Robbins Burling, a linguist at the University of Michigan.

The work «draws attention to the point that numbers are tools,» says Heike Wiese, a linguist at the University of Potsdam in Germany.

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.

The process is also recognizable in Chiang's original story, in which the linguist protagonist's procedure is based on the work of Kenneth Pike, Everett's former teacher, Chiang said.

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

All the while, linguists typically transcribe the statements, paying attention to the sounds, the grammar and the way meanings are combined, building a working theory of the language, he said.

Gregory Iverson, a linguist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, says the new study, and follow - up work, may help answer questions such as how brain injuries can cause speech loss, or even why some people learn languages more easily than others.

«Some linguists consider such examples of abstract symbolic reasoning as an indication of the ability to produce language, which seems to have arisen in humans only around 100,000 years ago,» Panne says.

«The Coens are visionary directors, masterful storytellers, and colorful linguists,» said Cindy Holland, Netflix's Vice President of Original Content.

But the linguist John McWhorter says all the LOLs are part of an inevitable evolution of language.

«It requires all of us to be socio - linguists,» Snow said, noting that teachers need to understand enough about language and the varieties of language in order to fully engage in contrastive analysis and code - switching.

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.

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.