Sentences with phrase «with linguist»

«How to Speak Atlantean» (2 minutes) is a featurette with linguist Marc Okrand who came up with the language exclusively for the film.

A decade ago, Peter Gordon of Columbia University visited the Pirahã to conduct fieldwork with linguist Daniel Everett, now at the University of Manchester, U.K., and his wife Keren.

Recognizing the growing need for on - demand interpretation services, Munks, along with linguist Mike McFerrin, cofounded LanguageLine Solutions in 1982.

Instead of abandoning the Viking flora project altogether, Kool is now working with linguists to use plant names as a kind of substitute for DNA to trace the spread of their use, and how that use evolved.

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.

The article, which described the extreme simplicity of the tribe's living conditions and culture, created furious debate with linguists, cognitive scientists, and evolutionary biologists.

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In Arrival, Amy Adams plays Louise Banks, an expert linguist tasked with communicating with aliens who land on Earth, to figure out what they want before their presence kickstarts World War III.

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.

We partnered with sales linguist Steve W. Martin on a comprehensive study of 230 B2B buyers, with the goal of pointing the spotlight on buyers themselves.

With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name - dropping) array of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way of a revolutionary understanding of the imagination.

John Paul was not just personally holy and personally interesting - poet, philosopher, essayist, linguist, a man with a gift for friendship, a man of prayer, a courageous man with massive moral integrity matched with humour and greatintellectual gifts.

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.

Linguists denounce them with relish.

Leonard Bloomfield and Edward Sapir, the two leading linguists of the day, were present at the Linguistic Institute in 1937, and Sapir was impressed with Pike's initial analysis of Mixtec.

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!

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

OK, Don, since you've decided that etymology trumps usage for giving a word's meaning (a truly ghastly principle no linguist would support) and have enlightened us all with the alpha privative breakdown, perhaps you'd like to explain for us the - ism part.

It takes the linguist several weeks of labor to unravel the structure of a language with which he is not familiar.

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.

«Learning to speak French with daddy,» reads the caption, with Jorgelina clearly proud of her budding linguists.

Other linguists argue that the computational models, built for genes that can only be inherited, deal poorly with languages that spread by diffusion.

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.

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.

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.

Reid and a fellow linguist teamed up with Patrick Nunn, a geography professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

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.»

To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.

But in recent years, archaeologists and linguists have accumulated evidence supporting another hypothesis: Premodern Polynesian sailors navigated their sophisticated ships all the way to the west coast of South America and brought the sweet potato back home with them.

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.

In an ongoing debate, psychologists argue introverts are less susceptible to distraction and have better long - term memory, while linguists claim the extroverts» sociable and outgoing attitudes, as well as their high tolerance to risk, help with learning a foreign language.

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.

My position is very exciting, since I am constantly interacting with other mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists, and engineers.

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

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

One fascinating question for linguists is whether all aspects of a language evolve as an integrated system with all aspects (grammar, morphology, phonology, lexicon) sharing the same history over time or whether different aspects of a language show different histories.

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.

With practice, linguists can discern the basic features of an unknown language after an hour or two of interaction with a speaker, according to EverWith practice, linguists can discern the basic features of an unknown language after an hour or two of interaction with a speaker, according to Everwith a speaker, according to Everett.

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.

One expert with the answers is Neil Cohn, an American linguist based at Tilburg University in The Netherlands.

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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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.

Amy Adams stars as a linguist who helps the U.S. government communicate with aliens who appear in Montana and 11 others sites around the world.

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner star as a linguist and physicist recruited by the government to facilitate relations with one of the twelve spherical shapes that have landed around the world with no discernible pattern.

The film follows Turing, a mathematical genius, as he leads a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, who are tasked with cracking the so - called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine.