| 单词 | linguist |
| 例句 | What linguists call speech rate — the number of speech sounds per second — equalizes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know syllabics. Isaac was the linguist. But I do know it means there are Nish close by who do.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z As the linguist Geoffrey Pullum has noted, there is nothing wrong with a news report that uses the passive voice to say, “Helicopters were flown in to put out the fires.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There may be countless worlds on which the inhabitants are accomplished linguists or superb poets but indifferent radio astronomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the 1980s and 1990s a gush of new information about the first Americans came in from archaeological digs, anthropological laboratories, molecular biology research units, and linguists’ computer models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many linguists refer to the two meanings as the “upper-bounded” and “lower-bounded” senses, labels borrowed from mathematics, and I could never keep them straight. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes these stories were what linguists call temporal narratives. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I have heard ‘radical’ linguists make the point that black English is a complex and intricate version of English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after deciding to obtain a Ph.D. in physiology, I nearly dropped out of science during my first year of graduate school to become a linguist. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From today’s vantage, the attack seems to have begun, paradoxically, with the publication in 1986 of a landmark pro-Clovis paper in Current Anthropology by a linguist, a physical anthropologist, and a geneticist. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some of Greenberg’s subfamilies, and some groupings recognized by more-traditional linguists, may turn out to be legacies of New World population expansions driven in part by food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But no, those words come from a poem written by the esteemed poet and linguist Master Lumumba. Do you know what they mean?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Indeed, an entire cadre of “scientists”—geneticists, medical researchers, psychologists, anthropologists, and linguists—gleefully regurgitated academic studies to reinforce the scientific logic of the eugenics program. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I’m an even worse linguist than he is. But I’m certain before the final reports are turned in, all the journals will be combed for additional data.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Government linguists devised the modified Roman alphabet adopted in 1928 by Turkey for writing Turkish, as well as the modified Cyrillic alphabets designed for many tribal languages of Russia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thought to have been written in 159 a.d., the twenty-one columns of glyphs were the first Olmec text long enough to permit linguists to decipher the language. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the difficulties that linguists have in agreeing on groupings of Native American languages reflect the difficulties that complex Native American societies themselves faced in expanding within the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From this, linguists conclude that ten was the basic unit in the Germanic protolanguages that English came from, and thus those people used a base-10 number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He had just been reading the work of the linguist Noam Chomsky. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Most linguists specializing in Native American languages do not discern large, clear-cut groupings other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This information in hand, the linguists went back to the writing on the potsherd. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One might initially wonder how a linguist, studying only modern languages whose unwritten ancestral forms remain unknown, could ever figure out whether Austronesians living on Taiwan 6,000 years ago had pigs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The result is the typical opening of an academic paper: In recent years, an increasing number of psychologists and linguists have turned their attention to the problem of child language acquisition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There are also gray areas and various ways to lump and split the relations, which give linguists plenty of things to argue about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The descriptive sort of linguist tends to observe change in the language, note it, analyse it and manage not to wake up screaming every night. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Discoveries in the last half-dozen years, by archaeologists, geneticists, linguists, and other specialists, have enriched our understanding of this story, without changing its main outlines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is obviously no end to this; it can tie up a whole life, and has luckily done just that during the past century for generations of comparative linguists. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother is a teacher and linguist; my father, a physician specializing in the genetics of childhood diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it’s only a legend; the recursive title was dreamed up by the linguist Robin Lakoff for a satire of a linguistics journal. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A controversial minority view is that of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who groups all Native American languages other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into a single large family, termed Amerind, with about a dozen subfamilies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Southwest, the Americas lack examples of large-scale language expansions widely accepted by linguists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today, professional linguists design writing systems for unwritten languages by the method of blueprint copying. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It will send the linguists back to India with their tape recorders, because it undermines the critical superstructure of their methodology. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Hence a linguist would immediately deduce correctly that the English language arose in coastal northwestern Europe and spread around the world from there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The transcripts — 122 in all — were then analyzed by a group of linguists and psychologists led by Katherine Nelson of Harvard University. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1970s and 1980s linguists applied glottochronological techniques to the Algonkian dictionaries compiled by early colonists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sequoyah’s syllabary is widely admired by professional linguists for its good fit to Cherokee sounds, and for the ease with which it can be learned. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fired by the mystery of the language no one could read, he became a superb linguist and passionately immersed himself in ancient Egyptian writing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first part of the 1986 article, Joseph H. Greenberg, a linguist at Stanford, proclaimed that the profusion of idioms was more apparent than real. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Western communication has what linguists call a “transmitter orientation”—that is, it is considered the responsibility of the speaker to communicate ideas clearly and unambiguously. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is “mitigated speech,” which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Bletchley Park, the U.K.’s secret code-breaking center, was staffed with hundreds of mathematicians, linguists, and professors, and it had dedicated units that could solve Abwehr Enigma with pencil and paper alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This political definition of “tribe” is thus often much smaller than what linguists and cultural anthropologists would define as a tribe—namely, a group that shares language and culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were master linguists and could understand any language. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Even in the South American binary counting schemes, linguists see the beginnings of a quinary system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I can’t help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z That small, far-right movement that seeks a whites-only state is developing new coded language, much as the Nazis once did, says noted linguist George Lakoff, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. Perspective | The coded language of the alt-right is helping to power its rise 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z And yet beyond these cultural meanings, and beyond the scope of this show, lies a larger debate, one still raging among linguists and cognitive scientists. Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z So it annoys linguists to no end to hear the latter “rule” associated with “grammar”, while the real, intricate grammar already embedded in the mind is ignored. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z An author, cognitive scientist and linguist who has long studied how propaganda works, he believes it’s long past time for the reality-based news media to stop kowtowing to the emperor. Perspective | Instead of Trump’s propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z “Our basic stance is one of reciprocity,” said Nick Enfield, a linguist at the University of Sydney, who led the study. Think You Always Say Thank You? Oh, Please 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z William Tyndale was the most brilliant linguist and wordsmith of the English Reformation. The political Bible, part 3: how Christian Britain came to accept democracy 2011-08-22T07:00:01Z Seeing a play by about a linguist who is struggling with the meaning of words and life, is unusual enough. In ‘Precious Little,’ a linguist grasping for the right words 2013-08-08T19:43:11Z I’ve read about it, but as an interested and biased practitioner, not a linguist. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s about a linguist who works as a live-in marriage counselor, trying to solve a couple’s communication problems scientifically. Alison Bechdel: By the Book 2012-07-26T14:36:01Z When academic linguists began systematically investigating English by looking at texts and listening to speakers, they found that many such “rules” were anything but, and some began taunting the rule-promoters. Prevailing winds 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “You see computational linguists using Twitter to predict box office revenues and opinion polls or to do sentiment analysis,” Mr. Russ said in a telephone interview. ArtsBeat: Regional English, Tweet by Tweet 2012-03-02T13:00:25Z Chaski, who taught linguistics at North Carolina State University in the early ’90s, organized a symposium at the Linguistic Society of America’s January meeting to help linguists learn how to serve the legal community. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “By what manner of well-meaning legerdemain,” the linguist Jonathan Lighter, a slang expert, later asked, “does a three-word Most Notable Hashtag become Word of the Year?” At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Cognitive linguists have shown that we make sense of our lives through metaphors: life is a journey; love is war; Syria’s use of chemical weapons is, in Obama’s words, “a game-changer.” CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z He was standing in front of a crowd of the nation’s top linguists, many of whom were still flooding into the already packed room. At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In Slate, linguist Ben Zimmer speculated that “baskets of deplorables” was inspired by a “parade of horribles” — a legal term that Clinton would be familiar with, referring to the negative consequences of a judicial decision. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z It was the linguist JR Firth who, in 1930, coined the term phonoaesthetics to refer to the study of how words sound. What's the loveliest word in the English language? 2012-05-25T11:30:01Z Murray was a talented linguist, and he worked at first as a “scientific and technical translator” at the Australian National University and then for the Commonwealth Department of Education. The Homegrown Language of Les Murray 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Deborah Fallows is a linguist and writer with two previous books, including “Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language.” Library of Congress National Book Festival: Understanding Our World schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The fact that so many “eras” focus on mortifying or difficult experiences makes the meme all the more likely to stick, says Sylvia Sierra, linguist and author of Millennials Talking Media. Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z “There’s been a dilution of its power through greater use,” says linguist Ben Zimmer, executive producer of Vocabulary.com. Your Guide to Not Using So Many Exclamation Points 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The road from Usenet to cocktail party chatter was largely paved by texting, said David Crystal, a noted linguist based in northern Wales. ?: Alphabet Soup 2011-09-23T22:25:13Z He’s a dramatist and a linguist who can be glorious about the ordinariness and misery of duty and work. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Izzard, who once completed 43 marathons in 51 days for charity, only started learning the German version of the show, translated by his linguist brother, at the start of January. Grappling German grammar, Eddie Izzard proves humor can travel 2014-01-29T15:27:11Z The definitive study on “mama and papa” as universal terms was conducted by Russian linguist Roman Jakobson. Why all babies say “mama” 2013-05-13T16:16:00Z Academic linguists, the arch-descriptivists, are perfectly willing to call some usages wrong and others plain ugly. What would the doctor prescribe? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z His mother, Maria, a linguist, worked as a teacher. Jan Sawka, Polish Artist, Dies at 65 2012-08-28T07:23:01Z The linguist Shigeru Miyagawa was present at the formal Osborne Garden here for music inspired by his theory that there are aspects of human speech closely aligned with bird song. A Musical Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z She stars as Dr. Louise Banks, a linguist tasked with learning to communicate with aliens who descend upon Earth. In Arrival, Amy Adams Takes a Listening Tour of the Universe 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The final vote would prove a rare moment when a room of linguists would all agree: #blacklivesmatter should be Word of the Year. At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Hillary Clinton’s speech patterns—that here-and-gone Arkansas twang, those “authoritative” masculine cadences—are sure to keep linguists busy for decades. Is There a “Gay Voice”? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Enfield is a linguist at the University of Sydney, whose research uncovers meaning in the minutiae of everyday chatter. How Language Came to Be — and How We Use It Today 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The explorer and linguist Sir Richard Burton, who first translated the Kama Sutra into English. Books of The Times: The Kama Sutra, Newly Translated 2012-01-31T17:03:33Z Air Force linguist, had been arrested, accused of leaking a top-secret report that included details of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential vote. ‘Reality’ Review: An Unusual Suspect 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Apple employ dozens of linguists — or “natural language programmers,” as they are known — to analyze language patterns and to track slang, even pop culture. When Autocorrect Goes Wrong (And So, So Right) 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z They married six months after they met, and not long after that were made political prisoners – punishment, she explains, for being linguists with too many books. Ray Winstone: cinema's hard man plays Alzheimer's patient 2013-01-15T19:00:02Z The Kama Sutra was first translated into English in 1883 by the explorer and linguist Sir Richard Burton who, given censorship laws, helped get it published privately. Books of The Times: The Kama Sutra, Newly Translated 2012-01-31T17:03:33Z Erdogan denounced the more than 1,000 signatories, which also included U.S. linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, and some Turkish academics were detained over it. Turkey's post-coup purges shake higher education 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Leon Battista Alberti, the revered author, artist, poet, priest, linguist and philosopher of the Renaissance, wrote in 1436 that "A painting is a window looking on to the world". I visited the Uffizi gallery at 17, and was awestruck. Now it's exhibiting my art? 2010-12-19T00:07:08Z A linguist details how Internet-age digital forces have caused the ways we write, communicate and socialize to evolve . . . or devolve. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z At first it’s just the occasional word she can’t get hold of – a linguist forgetting the word “lexicon,” ha ha. “Still Alice”: Julianne Moore’s pulpy, Oscar-worthy Alzheimer’s role 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The crew members spent months in preproduction: They made furniture, sweetgrass baskets and gowns using fabrics from the early 1900s, and a linguist taught the actors how to speak the Gullah’s Creole language. Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Pillow thinks he has found a way to fix foundering marriages: embed a linguist to spot, and correct, miscommunication between spouses. 2015 Contemporary American Theater Festival sets the stage for rebellion 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Q: How did you understand how linguists like your character Dr. Louise Banks work? A Minute With: Amy Adams on 'Arrival,' awards and 'Disenchanted' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The book was written by a father-son team, linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal, who is known for performing Shakespeare in the “original pronunciation.” Listen to 600 People Around the World Say "Potato" 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z “The literary atmosphere of that office — British officers, linguists, young veterans who were almost innately charged with literary reference — was joyful,” she later told the Paris Review. Shirley Hazzard, National Book Award-winning novelist, dies at 85 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z He got away with it because he was gifted — not just a born writer, but also a good musician, linguist, athlete, raconteur, and a diverting companion. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Nim, whose name was a punning tribute to linguist Noam Chomsky, was raised in the same way as a human child and encouraged to use sign language to communicate. Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z The linguist, Olga, communicates her discovery to a one-time fellow student who is now a professor at the University of Helsinki, Director of the Institute of Finno-Ugric languages. The Last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani – review 2012-08-14T13:45:01Z But we need linguists to help us make sense of language because it makes us better writers. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. Peterson is the linguist TV producers go to when they need to add verisimilitude to their fantasy or science fiction shows. Do you you speak High Valyrian? Duolingo launches Game of Thrones language app 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Early in the post-Soviet era, Johnny Porter, a linguist and former Rhodes Scholar from a small Indian tribe in British Columbia, is recruited to infiltrate a top-secret Russian research center in darkest Siberia. Review | Lionel Davidson’s ‘Kolymsky Heights’ may contain the greatest chase scene ever 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z From years of research, linguists understand that this perception is simply untrue. Combatting stereotypes about Appalachian dialects 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z They flew in this linguist from San Francisco who gives courses. Zoe Saldana brushes off criticism of Simone role 2013-05-15T12:20:10Z Val Chesterfield is a brilliant linguist specializing in extinct Nordic languages whose twin brother, Andy, apparently committed suicide at the station. ‘By the Time You Read This, I’ll Have Killed One of Your Husbands’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Originally from Ust-Kamenogorsk in Kazakhstan, Ms. Sergeenko was raised in a family of linguists, and said she continues to take inspiration from literature. The Russians Claim the Fashion Spotlight 2012-06-29T20:17:42Z The bots were programmed with material extracted from a famous 1970s debate between the linguist Noam Chomsky and the philosopher Michel Foucault. No actors. Just robots. Call this a play? 2011-01-28T12:08:12Z Her mother was an illustrator, and her father, who had entered the United States under an assumed name at 16, was a linguist. Cecile Pineda, Latina Writer Known for a Novel of Identity, Dies at 89 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Instead, Trump “paused to savor it for several seconds before continuing his speech,” noted Jennifer Sclafani, a linguist who studies political discourse and gender. Perspective | What do ‘Lock her up’ and ‘Send her back’ have in common? It’s pretty obvious. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Thorpe frets about his high, emphatic voice and consults acting coaches and linguists to try to change it. The DOC NYC Film Festival Returns 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z If he weren’t an artist, though, he might be a linguist, a semiotics professor or a rapper. Multilayered Paintings That Pay Tribute to Hip-Hop Dances 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z He was a gifted versifier — even his harshest critics grant that at least — accomplished in just about every poetic form, and he was a formidable linguist. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America’s No. 1 Literary Celebrity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The British linguist David Crystal said that his wife recently got a reply to an e-mail she sent in 2006. Anyone There? 2011-07-15T19:54:11Z With her background as a linguist, Diaz understands that the translation of an Indigenous language isn’t preservation; rather, the work projects the needs of another culture — in this case, a colonizer’s culture — onto the language. Poems of Love and Desire That Push Back Against Oppression 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z For subsequent drafts of his script, he added, he is thinking of calling in a linguist or native Russian speakers for advice about getting the locutions right. Relocating Drama From Ice to Stage 2011-02-27T23:26:57Z “A linguist looks at language behavior, not what is right or wrong,” Chaski says. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Born in Shanghai a year before Japanese forces invaded Manchuria, he came of age in the turmoil of World War II in China, the son of a Japanese linguist who may have been a spy. Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z However, linguists often point out that the concept of a standard accent is better understood as an idealization rather than a reality. Do accents disappear? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z After earning a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale, he spent four years as a linguist with the United States Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Her teachers call these “combat linguistics,” but the titular linguist mages — including politicians, cult leaders and gaming executives — have competing ends in mind, and Isobel is instrumental to all of them. A Gamer Learns to Weaponize Sounds in This Genre-Bender 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z I was an Arabic linguist in the Army, and while my language skills have faded, “Our sons will ask us what we did here”: an interrogator’s memories of Abu Ghraib 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z For the most part, ethnographers and linguists are helpless in the face of the gradual erasure of collective memory that goes along with this loss of linguistic diversity. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z “The word ‘hyperpolyglot’ was coined two decades ago, by a British linguist, Richard Hudson, who was launching an Internet search for the world’s greatest language learner. Sunday Reading: In Another Tongue 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Episode of the year: Normalise This! asked reporters, a linguist and a cognitive scientist for tips on how to cover a president-elect who spreads misinformation, vilifies the press and seems to promote a post-fact reality. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Marks is no fancy linguist, preferring the lure of speedy, page-turner intrigue though good reviews, so far, aren't translating to sales. 'Prison isn't high on my list of tragedies' 2013-05-27T17:30:00Z But some linguists point to how, in the early 19th century, humorous abbreviations were popular. Language evolves, and that’s okay (O.K.?) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Some agents were highly accomplished figures, such as Thomas Phelippes, a skilled linguist, mathematician and expert cryptographer. The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford – review 2012-08-17T21:55:05Z “He is a very supple classical linguist, but like any modern kid today he is versed in contemporary work too.” Dance: Liam Scarlett Choreographs ?Viscera? for Miami City Ballet 2011-12-30T23:09:10Z Almost no one, from lay people to linguists, really knows how meaning works. Where does language come from? 2012-10-20T17:00:00Z Another speaker said that this was the one time of year when the average media consumer might pay any attention to what a room full of phoneme-loving linguists cared about. #blacklivesmatter Is the American Dialect Society's 2014 Word of the Year 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z The correspondence includes an ad for his vaccination services and a recommendation letter from Jabez B. Hyde, a missionary and linguist who worked with Seneca Indians. Letters From a Secret Courtship in 19th-Century Brooklyn Evoke a Jane Austen Plot 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Amy Adams stars as the linguist who may be able to figure it all out and save the human race. Holiday Movie Release Schedule 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z For someone who plays a linguist it takes me a long time to find the right word. Amy Adams on Eyes That Deceive 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The emperor sought a second opinion from Johannes Reuchlin, a linguist in Stuttgart, who decided that Hebrew was a biblical tongue worth preserving. Antiques: Museum Resurrects Tiffany?s Laurelton Hall 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z Emailed and forwarded and tweeted around was a recording of father and son, linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal, reading Shakespeare side-by-side in a manner they call “original pronunciation.” Shakespeare the Way It Was Meant to Be Spoken 2013-09-20T14:29:04Z At Bletchley Park, the country estate where teams of linguists and mathematicians are working under military supervision to break Enigma, he is seen as stubborn and arrogant. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Like a linguist Mr. James studied that language, looked at its form, context, meaning, and called his new approach sabermetrics. | 'Moneyball': Brad Pitt in ?Moneyball,? by Bennett Miller 2011-09-22T21:30:09Z “Basic! Basic! Basic!” younger linguists began to chant. At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Cognitive linguists speak of the unidirectionality of metaphor: we process the abstract in terms of the concrete. Lauren Groff’s Stunning New Collection, “Florida,” Unfolds “in an Eden of Dangerous Things” 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Some linguists find the creation of new languages frustrating in light of the accelerating extinction of endangered languages. Game of Thrones' Dothraki inspires boom in fictional languages 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z For his 1984 book, “West of Eden,” Mr. Harrison did research for two years — interviewing biologists, anthropologists, engineers, linguists and philosophers. Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87 2012-08-18T02:52:27Z Ms. Becker, a specialist in Southeast Asian music at the University of Michigan, summarizes acres of study in and around the topic, by linguists, philosophers, historians, psychologists, musicologists. ArtsBeat: The Art of Writing About Listening 2013-05-30T16:41:33Z The queen of mean: Antiope by name, and played in the film by Robin Wright, with an accent, known to linguists as All-Purpose Antiquity, that floats gently around the eastern Mediterranean. Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Mayor worked with a linguist and vase expert to examine some of the words on vases depicting Amazons. The Real Amazon Warriors 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The pressure to sound standard is one force that can lead to what linguists describe as "dialect leveling" or "accent leveling." Do accents disappear? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z As a linguist attempts to communicate with her, it becomes clear that nothing less than the fate of the earth may be at stake. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Secondarily, this book is a rebuke of the work of the linguist Noam Chomsky, whom Mr. Wolfe refers to as “Noam Charisma.” Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Even in the age of Twitter and Facebook, linguists say, the interactions that most powerfully shape our speech are still local and face to face. Dictionary of American Regional English Reaches Last Volume 2012-02-25T00:18:42Z Language creators and linguists say that viewers’ increasingly discerning taste in authentic-sounding conlangs allowed creators of such languages to find each other and flourish. Game of Thrones' Dothraki inspires boom in fictional languages 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z One of the things we chose was a return to the strict father – which cognitive linguist George Lakoff calls the basis of the conservative worldview – and a new kind of Christian moralism. Let the end of Cosby be the true end of ’80s moralism: Are we done looking for “strict father” figures yet? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z A documentary about the life and legacy of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish lawyer, linguist and human-rights advocate who coined the term "genocide." The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Dalcher, a retired theoretical linguist, said she was inspired in part by the women’s marches around the country after the 2016 election. How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z But for linguists, the less obviously colorful aspects of our food-talk reveals much about the deeper structures of our language and psychology. Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Pat-El, the University of Texas linguist, said she went into the seminar “pretty neutral” on the question of authenticity, but left thinking the case for forgery was “weak.” Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Since 2007, she had collaborated with linguists, musicologists, anthropologists, and field workers, hiring the mourners and arranging their travel over Skype with the assistance of translators and fixers. Taryn Simon’s Varieties of Mourning 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z I took the same question to a cognitive linguist/philosopher, George Lakoff. Perspective | What do ‘Lock her up’ and ‘Send her back’ have in common? It’s pretty obvious. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z "Someone at work said they talked to a linguist who explained how offensive that is. They said accents don't exist anymore?" Don't tell me my accent doesn't exist 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z It turns out that professional linguists have been discussing it passionately among themselves, in their blogs and whatnot. Gene Weingarten: The shtruggle is real 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z A scaled-back version of this idea, however, has currency among some linguists, researchers and psychologists. Review | Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Things like this do not surprise linguists who specialize in the intersection of language and sociology. The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z It was this idea that drove the exceptional linguist and Oxford scholar William Tyndale to risk and eventually lose his life so the ploughboy might read the Bible in his own language. Christianity: a faith for the simple 2011-01-31T13:00:01Z Professional linguists have determined the values of those tiles. 15 fascinating facts about Scrabble 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z “Sometimes, the supervisors would say, ‘We must hide,’” said Philippe Mennecier, a retired linguist and curator who worked for four decades at the Museum of Mankind. A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose. 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z The words used are also revealing, according to Dan Jurafsky, a linguist and computer scientist at Stanford University, in “The Language of Food”. Tasty talk 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Green says that in the few hours the site has been live, the usual suspects have emerged: linguists, fellow lexicographers, language lovers. Green's, the Biggest Slang Dictionary Ever, Just Went Online 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Disney worked for six years on the film, establishing an Oceanic Story Trust made up of people from all walks of Pacific Islands life, from anthropologists and linguists to master navigators and tattooists. Princess Moana, the Rogue One rebel, the Eagle Huntress: meet film’s female heroes 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken around the world today, linguists predict that nearly half are in danger of extinction by the end of this century. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Some months ago, I wrote about the linguist George Lakoff’s prescription for handling the president’s false statements and lies, an approach that’s become known as the “truth sandwich.” Perspective | Trump is pushing a dangerous, false spin on coronavirus — and the media is helping him spread it 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Also on the program, the linguist Ben Zimmer explains how computers reveal the jargon of fiction. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Helen Schulman's 'This Beautiful Life' 2011-07-29T20:30:58Z The mantra of the historical linguist is that all language changes — and Shakespeare isn't exempt. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z But some professional linguists are watching with unease as artists, journalists and other amateur researchers enter their field. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Laughter, linguists will tell you, establishes closeness and conveys meaning. Laugh and the World Laughs With You. Type ‘Ha,’ Not So Much. 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z “I’m an academic linguist. I know the grammar very, very well but when it comes to speaking stuff off the cuff – no, I really need practice.” Do you you speak High Valyrian? Duolingo launches Game of Thrones language app 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z But she is 25, keeps three guns and, as she later confirms, has top-secret clearance with a local military contractor, where she works as a linguist specializing in Farsi, Dari and Pashto. ‘Is This a Room’ Review: A Transcript Becomes a Thrilling Thriller 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z OK, relocate the setting from a Manhattan restaurant to an office at MIT, and replace Gregory with linguist and political curmudgeon Noam Chomsky. ‘Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?’: for fans of Noam Chomsky 2013-12-12T21:02:16Z The process has been happening over generations, linguists say, adding an untold number of contributions to the language, including hip, nitty gritty, cool and woke. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z With the beginnings of research into the field of emoji, Egyptologists, cognitive linguists and communication experts have started debating the similarities between the two communication systems and what sets them apart. Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The supreme observer was no linguist, and nor was he a historian. Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott – review 2012-06-01T21:55:09Z Because linguists spend their careers trying to tease out what people actually do say and why, they get cross when people equate “grammar” with a host of rules that most people don’t actually observe. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z As a linguist who argues against arbitrary policing of language, I’ve found this a tough nut to crack. 2015 in language: “We can get up in each other’s faces so easily” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z So five years ago, they set out for Tahiti, Samoa and Fiji to convene with linguists, choreographers and village chiefs. Disney Makes Its Maiden Voyage to the South Pacific 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z To an American ear there is something intoxicating about what linguists call “Th” fronting, the pronunciation in British dialect of “th” as “f” or “v.” In London, Cheetos Tans and a Codpiece Are in Fashion 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The Swiss linguist and thinker Ferdinand de Saussure describes language as a form of treasure that is shared with others when we speak. Why reading fiction with friends is therapeutic too 2013-02-01T16:20:42Z But, as the linguist Gretchen McCulloch reveals in “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” her effervescent study of how the digital world is transfiguring English, informal writing is relatively new. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z There was vociferous opposition to that change by linguists and etiquette experts. Gender-neutral pronouns: When ‘they’ doesn’t identify as either male or female The British linguist David Crystal said that his wife recently got a reply to an email she sent in 2006. Anyone there? When your email goes unanswered 2011-07-19T00:20:05Z The linguist used spectacles, Ms. Evers said, to symbolize scholarship and insights into the heated debate. Antiques: Museum Resurrects Tiffany?s Laurelton Hall 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z The vote involved more than 200 lexicographers, linguists, etymologists, historians, grammarians and others. Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Understandably, his marriage to the journalist and linguist Gun Grut was falling apart. Beauty and the beast: Ingmar Bergman’s flawed way with women 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z In fact, it took linguists themselves quite a while to work out the details. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It takes a linguist to sort these out. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. The extensive guide, which includes more than 500 words and phrases, will be compiled by linguist David J. Peterson, who originally created the language for the show’s first season. Now's Your Chance to Learn How to Speak Dothraki 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z “Fantasy is not pure escapism,” says Page, the linguist. Cottagecore, cluttercore, goblincore — deep down, it’s about who we think we are 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z In a recent study, linguist Evan Bradley asked people to judge the grammar of sentences with a singular “they” as “correct English” or not. For linguists, it was the decade of the pronoun 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Browne was a medical man, but he was also, in an age before specialisms, a naturalist, an archaeologist, an anthropologist, a linguist and an inventor of words—“medical” itself being among the 784 he coined. Weird science 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He’s moving from the thriller genre to sci-fi with this tantalising set-up: Amy Adams plays a linguist recruited to uncover whether aliens have come to earth in peace or for war. The 75 films we're most excited about in 2016 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z He is “lowborn” but sharp, a traveler, a linguist. Hilary Mantel on Taking Her ‘Wolf Hall’ Novels to the Stage 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Ivan is stumbled across by a linguist doing field research, and as she learns his language, she realises that the language he is speaking is not only of incredible antiquity, but also related to Finnish. The Last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani – review 2012-08-14T13:45:01Z Internet searches, the Dictionary of American Regional English and consultation with linguists convinced Fitzgerald that Stokes’s use of “light bug,” for example, was “a personalized dialectal feature used by this one person.” Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “It’s not about what these names say outright — it’s about what they signify,” said Anthony Shore, a linguist who helps name products and companies. The Most Important Word in the Hospitality Industry? ‘Clean’ 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The day after her mother, Lydia, a French linguist, brought her home, the hospital was bombed, said Poole, who grew up with one younger brother. At 78, this ballerina is still going strong: ‘It’s never too late to do something you love’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z In fact, linguists say, American English actually has more words for the same things than ever before. Dictionary of American Regional English Reaches Last Volume 2012-02-25T00:18:42Z This being an “X-Men” movie—the ninth in the series, if you count spinoffs—the gifted youths in Xavier’s care are not merely math wonks or promising linguists. Apocalypse Now: Bryan Singer’s New “X-Men” Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z A fine linguist, Fischer-Dieskau is able to make as much of the text as Pears. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: a guide in clips 2012-05-18T16:16:00Z This is what linguists call a pronounced silence. Some kind of explanation: unspeakable nougat and trained cats 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z As any good descriptive linguist will tell you, slang is and always has been a valid part of language. From GOAT to ghost: Here are America’s 30 most googled slang terms 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z In his 2010 book “Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages,” Israeli linguist Guy Deutscher argued that the words we use can subtly channel our experiences and habits of mind. Review | Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The online dictionary's Time Traveler feature allows curious amateur linguists and cultural historians to enter a year and see all the words that were initially recorded — in other words, published — in that period. Did you know 'apology' and 'civil war' were coined the same year? Thank Merriam-Webster's new Time Traveler feature 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z It also introduced him to the band of linguists who were transferring their academic skills to the more practical — and profitable — world of the law. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Straaijer is a linguist researching English usage at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. The film, in its first minutes, prefers the latter, opening with a rat-a-tat montage of her many successes: author, linguist, Phi Beta Kappa scholar. ‘Nyad’ Review: Neptune’s (Estranged) Daughter 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Conover considers the work of a Swedish linguist who found the area to be a model society and urged that it not be despoiled, but he cannot share her certainty. Books of The Times: A Collector of Road Trips, Just Passing Through 2010-02-17T23:31:00Z The novel is narrated by Jean, a tough-willed mother of four and a former cognitive linguist in the Washington area. Review | Donald Trump has made feminist dystopias great again 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Starting as early as the 1970s, some cognitive psychologists, philosophers, and linguists began to wonder whether meaning wasn’t something totally different from a language of thought. Where does language come from? 2012-10-20T17:00:00Z And he was one of the first linguists to conduct a systematic study of the American dialect variously called black English, Ebonics, African American Vernacular English, or the “blaccent.” Is there a D.C. dialect? It’s a topic locals are pretty ‘cised’ to discuss The variation of “we was” and “we were” is widespread in English today, and linguists call the “we was” form “leveled” because the same form is used for every subject. Combatting stereotypes about Appalachian dialects 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z In cities like Syracuse, Chicago and Rochester, “cod” has started sounding more like “cad” and “cut” like “caught,” for reasons that remain deeply mysterious to linguists. Dictionary of American Regional English Reaches Last Volume 2012-02-25T00:18:42Z Nothing good, says Lakoff, a cognitive scientist and linguist who, nearly 40 years after his book was published, argues that Trump literally tries to “change your brain” by twisting language. Analysis | ‘The buck stops with everybody’: How Trump twists cliches to do his bidding 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The author, a linguist born and raised in the United States, has now lived and worked in England for almost 20 years. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From the Grand Canyon to the Moon 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The linguist Roman Jakobson called this stage of language acquisition “tongue delirium.” Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It is said that you should never ask a linguist for advice on grammar because the answer will always start with, “Well, it depends,” and everything after that will leave you more confused than before. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. The term was first coined as “whataboutery” and “the whatabouts,” in stories about the Irish Republican Army in the 1970s, according to linguist Ben Zimmer. Whataboutism: The Cold War tactic, thawed by Putin, is brandished by Donald Trump 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, it has crossed over!’” said Weldon, a linguist who studies African American English. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z As the linguist Geoff Pullum notes, “omit needless words” is a bit suspect, too, since clearly you shouldn’t omit needful words, so the word “needless” is itself needless. When the pope offers writing advice, should you listen? | Oliver Burkeman 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Overused phrases seem to bother people — even professional word nerds like us, a linguist and a folklorist. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Earlier this week Professor Noam Chomsky, linguist, political activist and one of the greatest thinkers of our time, sat down for an interview with GRITtv’s Laura Flanders. Noam Chomsky discusses Ferguson: “This is a very racist society; it’s pretty shocking” 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z While it’s nothing to brag about, I am a miserable linguist. Confessions of a monoglot 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Instead, as most linguists only too ruefully admit, upon confessing their profession at cocktail parties they tend to be told: “Oops, better watch my grammar around you.” Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Tracing the history of the symbol, Antonelli explains that it dates back to the 6th or 7th century, according to some linguists, and by 16th century Venice it referred to an amphora, a measurement vessel. Celebrating @ - the symbol of the computer age 2010-03-23T09:48:00Z The approach was pioneered by Frederick Jelinek at IBM, who, distrusting models that grew from analogies with human learning of grammar, insisted: "Whenever I fire a linguist, the performance of our system improves." Google Translate and the battle for accurate translations by computer 2010-12-19T00:05:52Z The famous linguist was none other than JRR Tolkien, and he made the claim in his 1955 lecture English and Welsh. What's the loveliest word in the English language? 2012-05-25T11:30:01Z Here, in drab rooms, about 9,000 mathematicians, linguists, cryptographers, clerks and classicists worked around the clock throughout the war to break German codes. Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Of course, there was a reason young women used uptalk, as linguists would later point out. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z An archaeologist, linguist and the greatest woman mountaineer of her age, she is best known for her role in establishing the modern state of Iraq during the 1920s. Top 10 inspiring female adventurers 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” Pinker, a psychologist and linguist, argues that humans are actually living in the most peaceful time in history, despite the attention given to violent atrocities worldwide. After Bill Gates recommended a book on Twitter, it shot to the top of Amazon's bestseller list 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Michael Montgomery, a noted linguist, said that early use of the word "is unknown in the British Isles." ‘Y'all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z There is a particular kind of speech that philosophers and linguists call “speech acts”, described by J.L. “Mere” speech has powerful consequences 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Mark Liberman, a linguist at the University of Pennsylvania, compared seven Republican presidential candidates’ speeches and found one contender, Rand Paul, to have the most varied pitch. War of words 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The Abbe Museum is also showing pieces that the linguist Frank T. Siebert acquired from tribe members in Maine. Dressed to Kill: The Power of Leopard Prints 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But “there’s no one place where you can go download the Internet,” says Emily M. Bender, a linguist who studies computational linguistics and language technology at the University of Washington. Your Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Train Generative AI Models 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z This quality, which linguists describe as “polysynthetic,” means that many affixes may attach to a verb—and with each additional affix another layer of story accrues. Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z “Saying to biologists that they are denying biology is ludicrous,” says linguist David Adger of Queen Mary University of London, who signed the letter. U.K. government vow to end ‘woke’ science draws rebuke from researchers 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z For instance, in order to decipher clay tablet inscriptions or trace the evolution of living tongues, linguists must grapple with questions that extend beyond language. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Some law enforcement officials defend gallows humor and profanity as a necessary, if unsavory, part of the job, while linguists and others who study policing say obscene language only escalates encounters and undermines public trust. LAPD officers caught joking about earning overtime after shooting someone 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z But for some experts who have studied the technology, such as University of Washington linguist Bender, those improvements won’t be enough. Chatbots sometimes make things up. Not everyone thinks AI’s hallucination problem is fixable 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Phillip Carter, a linguist, calls it “Miami English,” the result of 60 years of immigration from Spanish-speaking countries, and says it is “probably the most important bilingual situation in the Americas today.” Your Friday Briefing 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. Ancient ‘Unknown’ Script Is Finally Deciphered 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Historians and linguists generally agree that Sumerian, Akkadian and Egyptian are the oldest languages with a clear written record. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The way I'm defining language is the way linguists have always found it. An expert reveals the secret language of "Thinking With Your Hands" 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z These translations are a type of borrowing that linguists call “calques.” A New English Dialect Is Emerging in South Florida, Linguists Say 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Consulting with a Georgetown University linguist, FBI profiler James R. Fitzgerald led a team that scoured the manifesto and Ted Kaczynski’s old letters to his family. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who eluded authorities for 18 years, dies at 81 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Some are journalists like us, but there are also IT experts, designers, artists, academics, lawyers, doctors, PR specialists, and linguists. Why are people leaving Russia, who are they, and where are they going? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Hebrew and Arabic stand out among such languages for having timelines that linguists can reasonably trace, according to Hieber. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z "Gesture and language really are a single integrated system. It's just not a system that linguists study. " An expert reveals the secret language of "Thinking With Your Hands" 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z The caliphs established schools of Islamic jurisprudence and hired scholars and linguists to help administer the kingdom. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In this sense, all it does is regurgitate what it learned—it is a “stochastic parrot,” in the words of Emily Bender, a linguist at the University of Washington. How AI Knows Things No One Told It 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Determining the extent to which people’s concepts about things match up is a problem that has long occupied philosophers, psychologists and linguists alike. People Differ Widely in Their Understanding of Even a Simple Concept Such as the Word ‘Penguin’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Even with this broad time frame, contemporary linguists widely accept Afroasiatic as the oldest language family. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z After serving as a Russian linguist in the Army, he began his journalism career as a sports writer at the Tampa Tribune. Editor, Pulitzer administrator Mike Pride dead at 76 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Prof. Kucerova, the director of the linguistics center in Hamilton, regards Mr. Maracle as a linguist despite his lack of formal training. Unlocking the ‘Rosetta Stone’ of a Dying Language 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z But in 2017, a crease mark visible in the image of leaked National Security Agency material was enough to put investigators on the trail of a young Air Force linguist named Reality Winner. What Do Leaked U.S. Intelligence Reports Say? Here Is a Quick Guide. 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z “The language absolutely will survive,” said Larry Torres, a linguist who writes a bilingual column for The Taos News and Santa Fe New Mexican. New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Some linguists, however, argue that the appearance of Sanskrit was predated by Tamil, a Dravidian language that is still used by almost 85 million native speakers in southern India and Sri Lanka. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Said was so widely traveled and such a brilliant linguist who could speak to people in different lands that many accounts were written about him during his lifetime. Review | The epic life of Nicholas Said, from Africa to Russia to the Civil War 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z This gives linguists a better understanding of Sanskrit, including how to teach its grammar to computers. Science News Briefs from around the World: March 2023 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z But over the past 40 years, archaeologists, linguists and historians have come to see Swahili society as predominantly homegrown — with outside elements adopted over time that had only a marginal impact. DNA Confirms Oral History of Swahili People 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Then you typically move up to the next module, which is what linguists called morphology, which is word building. How to speak Na'vi: An interview with the creator of the alien language in "Avatar" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a New York Times Magazine cover story about the linguist George Lakoff, who had written a book called “Don’t Think of an Elephant!” Opinion | The Sierra Club doesn’t want to offend. It won’t persuade you, either. 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z A team of agency linguists assisted Hull, who doesn’t know Mandarin, with figuring out what Hua might say and how to say it. The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z An accomplished linguist, he cracked enemy codes during World War II before returning home to Boston and working for his father. The bedrooms and boardrooms of the rich and loathsome — all in a media-business book 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Around the same time, linguists developed the “bag of words” approach to modeling a text by counting how many times each word appears. Perspective | AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z But studying this group can help linguists understand the human “language network,” a set of specialized brain areas located in the left frontal and temporal lobes. Your native tongue holds a special place in your brain, even if you speak 10 languages 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z She said she started as a Farsi linguist before working in other parts of the agency, including the cybersecurity directorate. NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency’s hiring spree 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z To prepare, investigators are analysing "terabytes of data", including bank records and masses of electronic communications, while Russian language linguists are investigating financial documents. Inside the capture of a Russian oligarch's superyacht 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z For years, many linguists have believed that learning language is impossible without a built-in grammar template. AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Reuwer said that he or an F.B.I. teammate would ask a question, without making eye contact with the witness, and a U.S. linguist would translate. Guantánamo Judge Weighing Hearsay Statements in U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z This oversight has provoked a backlash from archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and linguists. What’s next for ancient DNA studies after Nobel Prize honors groundbreaking field of paleogenomics 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z “If the reason listed on the letter of employment is disputed by the linguist, we manually review all files on record for that individual thoroughly.” 'Blacklisted' Afghan interpreters were disqualified from U.S. visas. Now they’re in hiding 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z I can see why a publisher might not want to emphasize a notoriously incomprehensible linguist and literary theorist on the back jacket, but Hsu found a legible way to bring Derrida into his memoir. How a Bay Area-raised critic captured 'the banal ecstasy of friendship' 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z We asked a linguist to analyse our chat with the trader. Undercover with Russia’s fake arms dealers 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z His defense even hired an expert linguist who compared the writing style of the notes to Masters’ own writings, and determined Masters did not author the jail notes — even if he had copied them. Oprah picks California death row inmate's autobiography for book club 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Her father, she recounted, had entered the United States in 1910 as an undocumented immigrant, studied at Harvard University and became a philologist and linguist. Cecile Pineda, wide-ranging Latina author, dies at 89 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Until the late 1950s, many linguists had dismissed sign language as a poor substitute for spoken language, a rigid, imprecise system of gestures that left no room for nuance. Carl Croneberg, Explorer of Deaf Culture, Dies at 92 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Because of similarities between Indo-European and Anatolian languages such as ancient Hittite, linguists had guessed the Yamnaya had left both genes and language in Anatolia, as well as Europe. ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The linguist also found inconsistencies in many reviews mostly posted in Polish on the site, suggesting they were posted with the aid of a translation service. Undercover with Russia’s fake arms dealers 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The work of linguists also guides people in how to use language and how to adapt it to contemporary situations. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Translators, linguists and others with a deep knowledge of both Brazilian Portuguese and English said it could be translated as “pork barrelers,” “the political establishment” or perhaps “the Big Center.” Bolsonaro Grabs for a Man’s Phone, and Gets a New (Insulting) Nickname 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z What he found may not have surprised his research subjects, but it astounded other linguists. Carl Croneberg, Explorer of Deaf Culture, Dies at 92 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z “It’s a fair conclusion,” says Bart de Boer, a linguist who studies the evolution of speech at the Free University of Brussels who wasn’t involved in the work. Your simple throat is the reason you don’t sound like a chimp 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Hale, trained in the army as a Mandarin linguist, was uneasy the moment he began working in the secretive drone program. When whistleblowers go to prison, we're on the road to tyranny 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Effective communication in the workplace is one of the language-related problems that linguists study. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The translators and linguists said that in the context of Mr. Leão’s insult, it could be translated as the centrão’s lap dog or errand boy, or as an epithet referring to a female dog. Bolsonaro Grabs for a Man’s Phone, and Gets a New (Insulting) Nickname 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Ever the linguist, Mr. Croneberg saw American Sign Language as the core of what he coined “Deaf culture,” a term that later generations of researchers built into an entire field of study. Carl Croneberg, Explorer of Deaf Culture, Dies at 92 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Part-manual, part-travelogue, “Rebel With a Clause” is the story of the Grammar Table, a kind of linguist’s version of Lucy’s Psychiatric Help stall in “Peanuts.” Review | Reader does this question need a comma? A new book offers grammar help. 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z She envisioned her character as a renowned linguist who, from a blinking console on the bridge, presides over a hidden communications staff in the spaceship’s bowels. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in ‘Star Trek’ franchise, dies at 89 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Today, linguists more commonly call them English varieties. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z As linguist Steven Pinker has noted, the intent is to shed the negative associations attached to the old words. Opinion | Enough with the ‘is this a recession?’ blather 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Now 73, a linguist and retired teacher, Opolahsomuwehs said she still needs to “hear more than I’m sorry.” Pope Francis takes leave of Canada in Nunavut amid criticism 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The linguist cast the revelation as a surprise. Guantánamo Prisoner Said He Was Waterboarded; Agents Omitted It From Memo 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z But actually, for this, we worked with linguists, sociologists, and ethicists,” she said. Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z These kinds of environments are not unusual; the consensus among linguists is that a majority of children in the world grow up hearing multiple languages. How Many Languages Could a Child Speak? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z But along with consulting dictionaries, she consulted a database of language, called a corpus, built by a Brigham Young University linguistics professor for other linguists. The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Jean-Pierre Masson, a French linguist who specializes in “languages threatened with extinction,” has been visiting the island for the past five years as part of a project to write a history of Gaelic. In ‘The Colony,’ Audrey Magee explores big ideas, widespread tensions and fatal consequences 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Instagram said it worked with linguists to make sure the typeface works in as many languages as possible, including script languages like Thai and Japanese. Instagram created custom fonts called "Instagram Sans," and some of them are truly wild 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z But last year, Massimo Poesio, a computational linguist at Queen Mary University of London, and his colleagues created a benchmark that evaluates a model’s ability to learn from disagreement among the human data labelers. Computers ace IQ tests but still make dumb mistakes. Can different tests help? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Joe Kent, a military veteran, met Trump at Dover Air Force Base in 2019 as he was retrieving the remains of his wife, a Navy linguist killed in action in Syria. Tracking Trump's endorsements in the 2022 midterm election 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z In a sense, Davies, the linguist who created the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Corpus of Historical American English, is on the same page. The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z They bristle at linguists’ classification of their family’s native tongue as a dialect rather than a full-fledged language. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Logicians and linguists sometimes distinguish between using and mentioning a word. Can I Utter a Racial Slur in My Classroom? 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z But he kept trying to get the former linguist out. Safety and sadness: Afghan refugees observe their first Ramadan in the U.S. 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z That scenario could explain why one early Maya language incorporates a Chibchan word for maize, says linguist and co-author David Mora-Marín of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Maya—and the maize that sustained them—had surprising southern roots, ancient DNA suggests 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “I’m a linguist, so I think everyone’s an egghead like me and wants to look at syntactic constructions,” he says. The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Plato believed that humans were uniquely attuned to geometry; the linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that language is a biologically rooted human capacity. Is Geometry a Language That Only Humans Know? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, the Soviet dissident and linguist Igor Melchuk wrote that there were only two ways to avoid supporting the Soviet regime: go to prison or emigrate. Opinion | ‘They’re Willing to Risk Ruining Their Lives.’ Putin’s War Is Driving Russians Out. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Maqsoud worked as a linguist for almost four years before quitting and going back to school to study for his bachelor’s degree in business administration. Safety and sadness: Afghan refugees observe their first Ramadan in the U.S. 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The linguist's training group is helping military veterans brush up on skills like first aid or marksmanship. Underground U.S. groups funnel fighters, medics to Ukraine 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “If you’re a really good linguist, you can convince other people that your descriptions are correct,” she says. The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Growing up being able to do things, like go to her storytelling events, even just running around her house as a kid where she was working with linguists and working on transcriptions. ‘Red Paint’ author Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe on resilience, inheritance and punk music 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z This is because, unlike the other two languages, linguists have not found any inscriptions that are bilingual. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So to teach its teachers to teach English after years of isolation, the Chinese Education Ministry recruited language teachers like my parents, linguists at the University of Pittsburgh. One American life, set on new course by Nixon’s China visit 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Their technique does not highlight memorable, idiosyncratic word choices the way that earlier forensic linguists often did. Who is behind QAnon? Linguistic detectives find fingerprints 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z “Well, people in comparative literature also interpret language. They do a lot of interpretation of texts, but they’re not linguists.” The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Some linguists predict that Swahili's reach in Africa will continue to expand. Swahili's bid to become a language for all of Africa 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Scholars at the House of Wisdom included researchers, editors, linguists, and technical advisers. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As George Lakoff, a linguist and a proponent of the “truth sandwich,” told me in 2018: “Trump needs the media and the media help him by repeating what he says.” Perspective | How NPR’s Steve Inskeep cracked the code for interviewing Trump 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But as a linguist, I talk with people who do. Opinion | Words in English don’t last forever. And that’s okay. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Prof Jemina Napier, a specialist in sign language and communication at Heriot-Watt University, says hearing children of the deaf are talented linguists. ‘The doctors came and I had to tell my father he was dying’ 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Writer and linguist Kola Tubosun created a multimedia dictionary for the Yoruba language and also created a text-to-speech machine for the language. In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z It's the exaggerated pitch, tempo and intonation that parents use when talking to their little ones — what linguists call "motherese" or "parentese." Why do couples use baby talk with one another? 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Romero declined to be interviewed, responding to a request by emailing a quotation from the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky criticizing the mass media as a tool of corporate power. A top university in Mexico becomes a battleground over academic freedom 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Looking ahead, though, scientists and linguists see a problem. Live: Coronavirus daily news updates, Dec. 14: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z At Liberty Village, a linguist helped her translate some of her poems into English to share with military personnel. Evacuated Afghans awaiting resettlement adjust to temporary life on U.S. military bases 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s the exaggerated pitch, tempo and intonation that parents use when talking to their little ones — what linguists call “motherese” or “parentese.” Why do couples use baby talk with one another? 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Some descriptivist linguists have argued that criticisms of “bad” grammar found in dialects like African-American Vernacular English perpetuate systemic racism. What ‘your’ vs. ‘you’re’ says about Congress right now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z “It was a big surprise that she even worked with a linguist because she was on the shy side and kept to herself,” Siva said. The Indigenous Serrano language was all but gone. This man is resurrecting it 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “It’s exciting to see more work on this phenomenon with a greater diversity of languages,” says Lauren Gawne, a linguist at La Trobe University who was not involved with the study. Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z She has worked with linguists, sociologists, neuroscientists, epigeneticists, economists, anthropologists and philosophers. An Artist Who Disavows the Possibility of Individual Agency 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z For more than 100 years, linguists have debated when, where, and how a group of languages spoken today across central and eastern Asia, including those in the Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic families, emerged. News at a glance: Carbon emission offsets, COVID-19 vaccines for kids, and scientists’ plagiarism 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z To bring new evidence to the debate, she teamed up with linguists, archaeologists, and geneticists from China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea to build an extensive linguistic family tree for languages across Eurasia. How agriculture gave rise to one of the world’s most mysterious language families 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Pinker, the Harvard cognitive psychologist and linguist known for a string of popular science books, believes the world would be a better place if we could learn to be more rational. Book review: Steven Pinker on the power of the rational mind 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z There are good reasons why the finding might look different across languages, says Suzy Styles, a linguist at Nanyang Technological University. Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Language change, linguists say, has long been a tool in shaping social perceptions of identity. BIPOC or POC? Equity or Equality? The Debate Over Language on the Left. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z When I watched his 2016 movie, “Arrival,” in which Amy Adams’s academic linguist learns to communicate with visiting aliens, its monolithic spaceships hanging above lush valleys and rolling fog felt impossible but somehow absolutely plausible. The Man Who Finally Made a ‘Dune’ That Fans Will Love 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Some linguists believe they sprang from the same source, but others say extensive borrowing between ancient languages explains why certain sounds, terms, and grammatical features are common among many tongues, from Turkish to Tungusic. How agriculture gave rise to one of the world’s most mysterious language families 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z This isn’t the first study to find such factors linked to color vocabulary, says University of Bristol linguist Sean Roberts, who was not involved with the work. Sunlight affects whether languages have a word for ‘blue’ 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Some evolutionary linguists have suggested language may have started not with speech, but with gesture, because it’s so much easier to illustrate an idea with hands—like miming the shape of a tree, Ćwiek says. Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z One risk of using words without really meaning them, said Dr. Holliday, the linguist, is the overuse of a term — like “inclusion” — to the point where its meaning is diluted, which linguists call “semantic bleaching.” BIPOC or POC? Equity or Equality? The Debate Over Language on the Left. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z A Raven employee told partners on a conference call last month that Flyaway’s “ground facilitation team” consisted of three “operators,” who were Afghanistan experts, and two experienced linguists. How an Instagram star’s $7 million mission to rescue Afghan civilians struggled to get off the ground 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Although linguists focused on the Etruscans’ seemingly exotic language, archaeologists saw signs of local ties. They may have founded Rome, then vanished. New work sheds light on the mysterious Etruscans 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Former military personnel who served in Afghanistan and maintained friendships with their former linguists and support staffers have said the resettlement process is inordinately bureaucratic and slow. CIA-trained Afghan forces who helped Americans and others evacuate now await resettlement in the U.S. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The study is robust, and its control of writing systems is “useful and important,” says Mark Dingemanse, a linguist at Radboud University. Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Liang Min, 35, a linguist from Jilin province, said China’s pop idol culture, in which young fans donate money to celebrities, is out of control. Xi Jinping’s crackdown on everything is remaking Chinese society 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Until the 1970s, most linguists believed that the structure of language existed out in the world, and that the human brain then learned it from infancy. This week’s passages 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z “Usually, when Indo-European arrives, it supplants the languages that were there before,” says Leiden University linguist Guus Kroonen, a co-author of the paper. They may have founded Rome, then vanished. New work sheds light on the mysterious Etruscans 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The defense lawyers had already refused to work with their teams’ Defense Department contract linguists, translators who had been vetted by the government to receive top-secret security clearances and help them communicate with the prisoners. Three Guantánamo Detainees Charged in 2002 Bali Bombing 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Such experiences fueled Dr. Kannapell’s advocacy for the rights of deaf people, a cause to which she devoted her entire adult life as a linguist, educator and activist. Barbara Kannapell, champion of deaf people and ASL, dies at 83 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z His application included a letter of recommendation from Sullivan who described him as “punctual and professional, an exemplary linguist and trustworthy friend.” US soldier loses 1 Afghan translator; fights to save another 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z He sat down with “Democracy Now!” journalist Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky — the famous and hard-to-book linguist — for a virtual conversation. 'Hot vaxxed summer' fizzled, but 'hot books fall' feels like a safe bet 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The work is an “amazingly focused new body of information,” says D. Kimbrough Oller, a developmental linguist at the University of Memphis. Baby bats babble, much like human infants 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z There are 32 Mayan languages, for example, according to Danny Law, a linguist at the University of Texas at Austin. Zapotec in 90006, K’iche’ in 90057: New map highlights L.A.’s Indigenous communities 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Records show that candidate successfully served as a linguist for three years. He says he helped his country. A decade later, the government accused him of fraud. 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z A Lebanon-born US citizen, Thompson worked as a contract linguist at an overseas US military facility, where she was entrusted with a top-secret government security clearance. Mariam Thompson, love-struck US army linguist, jailed for 23 years 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The linguist, who had a top-secret government security clearance, began accessing classified information in Pentagon computer systems on Dec. 30, one day before protesters stormed the U.S. Pentagon linguist sentenced to 23 years for exposing U.S. sources in Iraq to Hezbollah in rare terrorism espionage case 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The linguist, who had top-secret government security clearance, began accessing classified information in Pentagon computer systems on Dec. 30, one day before protesters stormed the U.S. Pentagon linguist sentenced to 23 years for exposing U.S. sources in Iraq to Hezbollah in rare terrorism espionage case 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Eric Campbell, a linguist at UC Santa Barbara, said that estimating the population is difficult because immigrants may be reluctant to reveal they speak an Indigenous language — fearing discrimination — or may not think it relevant. Zapotec in 90006, K’iche’ in 90057: New map highlights L.A.’s Indigenous communities 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Scrutiny instead centered on the recruiters, mostly Afghan immigrants themselves, who found potential linguists for the contracting firms and set up their initial phone interviews. He says he helped his country. A decade later, the government accused him of fraud. 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z A US military linguist has been jailed for 23 years for passing classified information to a foreign national linked to the Lebanese Islamist militant group Hezbollah. Mariam Thompson, love-struck US army linguist, jailed for 23 years 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The linguists hired under the contract would support Army soldiers in communicating with Afghan civilians and military officials. Judge tosses Afghanistan fraud case, cites years of delays 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z A former Air Force linguist, Ms. Winner entered a guilty plea in 2018, after being prosecuted for leaking classified information. Reality Winner, Who Leaked Government Secrets, Is Released From Prison 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z A former military linguist, Winner held a top-secret security clearance and handled classified information as a contractor for Pluribus International, working at Fort Gordon in Georgia. Reality Winner, the NSA contractor who pleaded guilty to mishandling government secrets, is transferred to halfway house 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z She started to read the work of linguist and political thinker Noam Chomsky in her spare time. One year after George Floyd’s death sparked a movement, many protesters’ lives are forever changed 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Acting on this request, the linguist handed over dozens of files about intelligence sources, which she accessed on US military computer systems. Mariam Thompson, love-struck US army linguist, jailed for 23 years 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z “Semantic change” is what linguists call it when the meaning of a word changes over time. A crispy cauliflower recipe with lemon-mustard dressing proves a cutlet is what you make of it 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Fu, who also was an author and linguist, worked in Washington for the China Times, a daily Chinese language newspaper published in Taiwan, for 31 years until his retirement in 2008. Community deaths 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z One of the hardest questions for evolutionary linguists is why humans speak at all. No shared language? No problem! People across cultures understand clues from ‘vocal charades’ 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The linguist Kenneth Hale famously said, “The loss of a language represents the loss of a rare window on the human mind.” Native American women are reclaiming their language 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Manafort and his longtime business associate, Mr. Gates, joined the Trump campaign after years of doing political consulting work in Ukraine, where they met Mr. Kilimnik, a Russian Army-trained linguist. Biden Administration Says Russian Intelligence Obtained Trump Campaign Data 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Jennifer, a linguist and interpreter in Seattle, also called out Gosar's financial backers at the American Dental Association PAC and other dental groups that have donated hundreds of thousands to the former dentist's campaigns. Rep. Paul Gosar’s siblings say he's a white supremacist — his Republican colleagues stay silent 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The response perplexes University of Indonesia linguist Nazarudin, who says Indonesian language data from 2013 collected by Leipzig University shows other phrases, such as women’s empowerment or women’s rights, were far more frequently used. Artist on mission to change Indonesia's misogynistic dictionary entry for 'woman' 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z “Speech isn’t necessary for language,” said Robert Berwick, a computational linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was not involved with the study. Neanderthals Listened to the World Much Like Us 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z “Reviving a language with no native speakers is incredibly hard,” said Warner, who describes herself as an “outside linguist” because she is working on language revival but is not Native American herself. Native American women are reclaiming their language 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor and best-selling linguist, was criticized by members of the Linguistic Society of America in 2011 for alleged insensitivity to racism and sexism. College educators form alliance to defend free expression 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z A skilled linguist, she was training to be a wireless operator. How a ring tells the story of a forgotten secret agent 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Fascinated with human communication, Lacôte first thought of becoming a linguist — a pursuit not unrelated to his interest in the study and preservation of a people’s identity. Philippe Lacôte honors Ivory Coast's legacy of storytelling with 'Night of the Kings' 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z It's almost like Twitch didn't consult a feminist linguist. Twitch backtracks after outcry for using 'gender neutral' term 'womxn' 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z In the year that preceded her death in 1930, she helped a linguist archive her knowledge of language, traditional medicine and culture. Native American women are reclaiming their language 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Wali is a talented artist and linguist, but his dream is to study medicine abroad before returning to Afghanistan. Afghanistan: A year of violence on the road to peace 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z “Sometimes it would change a male to female in the middle of a dialogue,” says Charles University computational linguist Rudolf Rosa, who started to work on the project 2 years ago. Kinky and absurd: The first AI-written play isn’t Shakespeare—but it has its moments 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z “Warfare today requires intelligence and communication specialists, linguists, logisticians, medical personnel, drone and cyber operators, and more,” their brief says. Groups ask Supreme Court to declare the all-male military draft unconstitutional 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z But in her heart of hearts, Sabankaya is a botanical linguist who wants us all to become conversant in the language of flowers. ‘The Posy Book’ puts together meaningful floral arrangements that speak for you 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Beyond the benefits of personal identity and community and physical health, reviving languages is also critical for maintaining linguistic diversity, which adds to the psychological health of society at large, linguists say. Native American women are reclaiming their language 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z She later worked as a linguist and as a project manager. Charity in Egypt is an oasis of care amid misery of the pandemic 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Renowned linguist Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus of the University of Southern California, is not very complimentary. UK leading the way in use of language-learning apps 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Gebru says she wanted to help develop those safeguards, one of the reasons she agreed to collaborate with the research paper proposed by Emily M. Bender, a linguist at the University of Washington. Google hired Timnit Gebru to be an outspoken critic of unethical AI. Then she was fired for it. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Still, there’s reason to think Coalition S will make an outsize impact, says Johan Rooryck, Coalition S’s executive director and a linguist at Leiden University. A new mandate highlights costs, benefits of making all scientific articles free to read 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Warner and other linguists once considered the Mutsun language to be “dormant,” meaning there are no proficient speakers. Native American women are reclaiming their language 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z “There are all sorts of differences in terms of how finely you break down your categories,” says Aneta Pavlenko, a linguist at the University of Oslo’s Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan. Is joy the same in every language? 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z In the early years of the new immigrant wave, Amelia’s skills as a natural linguist had been much in demand. Seeing 2020: A vision of Seattle’s future from 1984 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z As a civilian, he later worked for military contractors in counterintelligence roles, including work as a Russian linguist. Ex-Green Beret charged with Russian espionage to enter plea 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Under its contract with the U.S. military, Valiant hires translators, formally known as linguists, for work in Iraq, Syria and other places. They served alongside U.S. soldiers. Now they fear that Iran’s allies in Iraq will strike back. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Prosecutors asked the judge to declare the case complex against Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, a former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI. Judge: Ex-CIA officer spy case too complex for speedy trial 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “Free speech threatens democracy as much as it also provides for its flourishing,” the philosopher Jason Stanley and the linguist David Beaver argue in their forthcoming book, “The Politics of Language.” The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Vltchek authored numerous books, including “On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare” with linguist and scholar Noam Chomsky. Turkey probes death of American journalist Andre Vltchek 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Ask the linebacker who is back on campus being tested every single day and the linguist who is quarantined in her sorority house — and is not. Perspective | The Big Ten might save its football season, but the myth of college sports has been shattered 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z He was a two-time All-American basketball player at Roanoke College and served as a Korean linguist in the U.S. Deputy dies after crash that killed woman in parked car 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The first English translation was published in the 19th century by the linguist, go-getter and driver of the Welsh renaissance, Lady Charlotte Guest. Top 10 goddesses in fiction | E Foley and B Coates 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Thomas, a two-time All-America basketball player who later served as a Korean linguist in the U.S. King County Sheriff’s deputy who suffered a stroke and crashed his SUV into a car, killing a Seattle attorney in Georgetown, has died 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z While Dajko and Carmichael have seen dialects change more along racial lines in recent years, the two linguists said that’s an overly simplified view of dialects that locals say vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. 15 years after Katrina, does New Orleans sound different? 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Later, after Ma got a position as a contract Chinese linguist for the FBI, he regularly gathered documents marked classified to give to his handlers during trips to China, the affidavit alleged. Ex-CIA officer accused of sharing American secrets with Chinese intelligence 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Once in Hawaii according to court documents, Ma applied for a job as a contract linguist at the FBI office there, reviewing and translating documents. Ex-CIA officer arrested for allegedly selling secrets to China 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z To illustrate the absurdity—and long history—of this notion, linguists often retell the ancient story of the Greek historian Herodotus, who in about the fifth century B.C. wrote about an ancient psycholinguistics experiment. Were French People Born to Speak French? 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The linguists’ society, like many academic and nonprofit organizations, recently released a wide-ranging statement calling for greater diversity in the field. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, veteran women’s rights campaigner Gloria Steinem, authors J.K. Backing anti-racism protests, renowned intellectuals lament intolerance 'on all sides' 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z So, as the linguists say, all you need to validate a word is a community of speakers. Is ‘irregardless’ a real word? We asked our journalists as battle rages on 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z These greetings are what linguists call “formulaic expressions”: idiomatic phrases people say in certain circumstances without a thought to their literal meaning. Opinion | How the pandemic has changed the way we greet each other 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Academic linguists may debate which word implies a longer period. Lack of international cooperation will hinder economic recovery | Howard Davies 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z In an era of polarizing ideologies, Professor Pinker, a linguist and social psychologist, is tough to pin down. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z So it’s everything from the sociology, the etiquette, or what linguists call the pragmatics of it, to literally how to operate the system and set policies. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z An Englishman questions the accidental death of his son, a Russian linguist for British intelligence. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 17, 2020 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z He became an enthusiastic linguist when he was about 14, learning Mandarin Chinese in school and, on his own, Italian, Spanish and French before the 10th grade. Barry Farber, Perennial Talk Radio Host, Dies at 90 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z “War metaphors call for mobilization, for action, for doing something,” Veronika Koller, a linguist at Lancaster University in England, told the Atlantic. Analysis | Are we at ‘war’ with coronavirus? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The linguists demanded that the society revoke Professor Pinker’s status as a “distinguished fellow” and strike his name from its list of media experts. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “You can see how the justice system plays out in day-to-day language and social interaction,” says Rob Voigt, a computational linguist at Stanford who took part in the project. Meet the psychologist exploring unconscious bias—and its tragic consequences for society 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z A Pentagon contract linguist assigned to a U.S. Pentagon contract linguist in Iraq pleads not guilty to espionage 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z This is one of those terms for which the internet offers various competing “folk etymologies”, which is the linguist’s polite term for nonsense. ‘Bear markets’: why stock markets are giving us paws for thought 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Thompson was living in Erbil, Iraq, working on contract as a linguist. Translator Accused of Revealing U.S. Secrets Amid Tensions With Iran 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The linguists’ letter also accused the professor of engaging in racial dog whistles when he used the words “urban crime” and “urban violence” in other tweets. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z A US defence department linguist has been charged with transmitting "highly sensitive classified" information to a foreign national linked to the Lebanese Islamist militant group Hezbollah. US defence worker charged with espionage 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z A linguist for the U.S. military has been charged with espionage for allegedly disclosing classified information, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. U.S. military linguist charged with espionage 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z A Department of Defense contract linguist was charged Wednesday with turning over the names of confidential U.S. intelligence assets to a Lebanese national with ties to Hezbollah. DOD linguist charged with disclosing names of U.S. intelligence assets to Lebanese national 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, she said that she hoped having the backing of women’s rights campaigners and linguists would strengthen the message. Fresh call for Oxford dictionaries to change 'sexist' definitions 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It also urged linguists to confront how their research “might reproduce or work against racism.” How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, she worked as a contract linguist and held a "top secret government security clearance", the US justice department said in a statement on Wednesday. US defence worker charged with espionage 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Of course, linguists still argue over its origins. Zora Neale Hurston’s new collection highlights her unapologetic celebration of Black culture 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Building on a friendship initiated in Sandinista Nicaragua of the 1980s, Wallace Shawn — a committed activist but someone who is best known as an accomplished dramatist and actor — interviewed scholar and linguist Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky: "The Democrats abandoned the working class decades ago" 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z “Students are using it differently,” said Elaine Gold, a former University of Toronto linguist who is director of the Canadian Language Museum, which mounts traveling exhibits about Canadian language. In truth, 'eh' may not be as Canadian as the world thinks 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Because this is a fight involving linguists, it features some expected elements: intense arguments about imprecise wording and sly intellectual put-downs. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Winner, a former Air Force linguist and Kingsville, Texas, native, was the first person to be sentenced under the Espionage Act since Mr. Trump took office. Reality Winner, Imprisoned for Leaking Russian Hacking Report, Seeks Clemency 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The bible for these educators is a body of research produced by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists. An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Mr. bin al-Shibh’s team has also been plagued by other problems, including the discovery that a linguist assigned to the team by the Pentagon had earlier worked in a C.I.A. black site. Start of Sept. 11 Trial in Doubt After Defense Lawyer Asks to Quit Case 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z For linguists, it’s a resource of reference; for students, it’s a window into the diversity of human language. World’s largest linguistics database is getting too expensive for some researchers 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The linguists insisted they were not attempting to censor Professor Pinker. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The term is usually used by linguists to describe the way foreign words creep into a language because they are perceived to be fancier — picture an English speaker who drops French into his conversation. Perspective | The tie that binds: I’m paying more attention these days to the length of my necktie 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z He is a Chinese linguist, and the co-author, with Dr. Hannas, of the book on China’s technology transfers. China’s Lavish Funds Lured U.S. Scientists. What Did It Get in Return? 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In addition to linguists, Ford worked with cyclists and industrial designers from Designworks on the jacket. "Emoji jacket" can help cyclists communicate their never-ending rage to drivers 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Four psychologists and a Jocum linguist are also in the group. Fears for Brazil's isolated tribes as ex-missionary named to head agency 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The linguists’ letter took strong issue with the words “mild-mannered,” noting that a neighbor later said that Goetz had spoken in racist terms of Latinos and Black people. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z A U.S. defense contractor in Iraq, Hamid was killed in December in a strike on an Iraqi military base where he worked as a linguist. Defense contractor from California whose death sparked U.S.-Iran conflict is mourned 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Andrea Nini, a forensic linguist, testified during the proceedings that it was likely that a paragraph in the statement had been dictated to the woman by someone who spoke English as a second language. Woman Who Accused 12 Men of Rape Is Guilty of ‘Public Mischief’ in Cyprus 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “If you’re a linguist or a crossword constructor,” McCoy said, “part of your brain is analyzing every part of language you encounter.” Puzzling over language: A computational linguistics researcher crafts a crossword for Johns Hopkins 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z “Now that our bill honoring the legacy of Pueblo storyteller and self-taught linguist Esther Martinez is signed into law, we will move forward on important work to revitalize our languages and traditions,” Haaland said. President Trump signs measure to preserve Native languages 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Many of the linguists proved shy about talking, and since the letter first surfaced on Twitter on July 3, several prominent linguists have said their names had been included without their knowledge. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Gender and linguists experts weren’t surprised by their choices. Female candidates asked for forgiveness. Men, not so much 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Gretchen McCulloch, a linguist and author of “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” highlights the use of punctuation to convey tone of voice, rather than for grammatical effect, as one such evolution. You Live Your Life Online. Don’t Forget Your Manners 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z There are 32 Mayan languages, for example, said Danny Law, a linguist at the University of Texas at Austin who has participated in the cultural awareness training. Nine years after Guatemalan man's shooting, LAPD officers get help to identify indigenous languages 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Residents of an overwintering station in Antarctica provided linguists with evidence of the first small changes in speech that may signal the development of a new accent. Linguists Hear An Accent Begin 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The linguists’ letter touched only lightly on questions that have proved storm-tossed for Professor Pinker in the past. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Viewers could see that the action on their television did not match the voice-over, and state linguists petitioned the Central Committee to update the text. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z I cannot for the life of me understand why no one called a linguist to testify about the nature of insults. Elon Musk’s lawyers pressure caver Unsworth for an apology 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Frivolity aside, sometimes the linguists find themselves in serious discussions, such as debates about definitions of potential cultural appropriation, Zimmer said. App. Fake news. Hashtag: What will be the word of the decade? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Unsworth indicated he’d taken Musk’s words as an accusation Insults are the kind of thing one might want to call a linguist to discuss, you know, as an expert witness. Caver Unsworth testifies he felt ‘dirtied’ by Musk’s ‘pedo guy’ tweet 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a PhD in the language, but they do want to speak,” Reisinger said. What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z A Uighur linguist recognized Zhu’s signature written on the top of some of the documents from his time working as a translator in Kashgar, when Zhu was the city’s top official. Chinese official revealed as playing key role in mass detentions of Uighur Muslims 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z His mother was a linguist and Army brat. ‘A serious-minded kid:’ Pete Buttigieg aimed high early 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z He met Buttigieg’s mother, a linguist and Army brat with roots in Indiana, when they were both on faculty at New Mexico State University. ‘A serious-minded kid:’ Pete Buttigieg aimed high early 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z James Child, 94, a linguist with the National Security Agency who also did translating and teaching of linguistics, died Oct. Community deaths 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In one of those cases, former Air Force linguist Reality Winner, who was an intelligence contractor for the National Security Agency, gave the news media classified information about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Former DIA employee accused of leaking top secret information to reporters released on bond 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Also an Arabic linguist, he logged 136 combat hours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom while training Iraqi air force personnel. Air Force colonel pleads guilty in child porn case 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The team would include a project manager, intelligence analysts, linguists, “Avatar Operators,” who would create fake identities on social media, and “operations experts with extensive experience in social engineering.” The Black Cube Chronicles: The Undercover Operative 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Joel Tetreault is a computational linguist who until recently was the director of research at Grammarly, a leading brand of educational writing software. Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Weisband became a linguist in the Army’s Signal Security Agency — and a handler for other Soviet spies. The ‘Wall of Spies’: A new museum you can’t visit dedicated to American turncoats 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Cognitive scientist and linguist George Lakoff offers that “all of our knowledge makes use of frames, and every word is defined through the frames it neurally activates. All thinking and talking involves frames .” Greta Thunberg’s radical climate change fairy tale is exactly the story we need 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Feeling is a leading Cherokee linguist and one of an estimated 2,000 people the tribe currently identifies as “first-language” speakers, or those whose native language is Cherokee. Cherokee Nation plans $16M investment in language program 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But linguists may now be able to offer a crumb of consolation to nervous speakers. Want to sound smarter? Try saying nothing | David Shariatmadari 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Computational linguists translate these rules into the programming code that a computer can use to process language. Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z These kinds of issues are obvious to linguists. Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Then again, so was the lack of a nomination: mixing wonderment, curiosity and sorrow as a linguist making close encounters of the third kind, Adams’ subtle touch made it look deceptively easy. Commentary: Why the Emmys shouldn't overlook 'Sharp Objects' ' Amy Adams 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z In addition to the troops, the prison employs Defense Department contract linguists, intelligence analysts, consultants, laborers, information technology professionals and other government workers. The Cost of Running Guantánamo Bay: $13 Million Per Prisoner 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z FBI linguist Catherine Chang told a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday that Yujing Zhang received nearly two weeks’ notice that the March 30 Chinese-American event at the president’s club was off. The Latest: Woman got texts saying Mar-a-Lago canceled 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “This is pretty solid stuff,” says Bart de Boer, an evolutionary linguist who studies speech production at the Free University of Brussels, but was not involved in the work. Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z I think that’s really important, and my hope is that this paper will encourage more linguists to tackle these types of problems. Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z In a separate announcement on 28 August, the Plan S consortium named linguist Johan Rooryck, of Leiden University in the Netherlands, as its new champion, with a responsibility to promote and develop the plan worldwide. Baby elephants, painkiller prescriptions and Russian radiation clues 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Likewise, U.S. forces and humanitarian workers relied on local staff who served as linguists, cultural advisers, security guards and maintenance staff. Opinion | We can’t leave Afghanistan without protecting our closest allies first 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z To train its most recent grammar tools, Google said in a blog post that it asked computational and analytical linguists to review thousands of grammar samples over several months. People do grammar bad. Google’s AI is hear too help. 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z But she worked as his assistant and attended some of his lectures, and he employed her to fact-check the work of early ethnologists and linguists who had studied the Plains Indians. How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Scientific American asked Grieve about his trek through the Trump tweet corpus and the richness of Twitter as a source for linguists. Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z As a software engineer and computational linguist who spends most of her work and even leisure hours in front of a computer screen, I am concerned about what I read online. How an algorithm can help us detect fake news 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z ‘If I bring it up, people think I’m joking,’ said Robert Leonard, a respected forensic linguist based at Hofstra University in New York. Dems throw Senate fight for a (Hicken)loop 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Each sample was reviewed by three linguists, with the third linguist casting the tie-breaking analysis when the other two disagreed in 25 percent of the cases. People do grammar bad. Google’s AI is hear too help. 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The difference is that they didn’t have the benefit of evidence about the way language changes over time, unearthed by linguists from the 19th century onwards. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But looking at the structure of language—how something is said—is what linguists do. Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Boris Johnson has long spun political gold from his magniloquent tongue, using what some linguists and observers say bombastic language, esoteric vocabulary, occasional crudity and episodes of bumbling bluster. Boris Johnson's magniloquent tongue reaps political gold, linguists... 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z He was a talented linguist who read and spoke more than half a dozen languages, including Hungarian. Norman Stone obituary 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z A talented linguist, intelligence analyst and cryptologist, Kent enlisted in 2003, inspired by her father and uncle, both of whom were first responders called to the World Trade Center on 9/11, Schumer said. Lawmaker wants US Navy ship to be named after female service member killed in Syria 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Fine, a classically trained musician and linguist from the Russian city of Archangel, started at Ian Freed Consulting as a receptionist. Alexa in the classroom? Amazon’s voice assistant leads kids’ story time 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Later, as a learning linguist, the 22-year-old made plans to schmooze with the boss. They have the name. They wear the number. But these NBA draft hopefuls aren’t their fathers. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Behind the verbal acrobatics, though, linguists sense a much more calculating use of language. Boris Johnson's magniloquent tongue reaps political gold, linguists... 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “The 40-hour thing was just not respected,” a former associate linguist told The Guardian. 'White-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors slam tech giant 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z “The 40-hour thing was just not respected,” said a former associate linguist. 'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The authors, linguists and psychoanalysts, investigate Emily’s use of pronouns, and the contrast between her private speech and her social speech. Parenting by the Numbers 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z “They work hard, master the language and are well adopted into the society,” said Satoshi Miyazaki, a linguist at Waseda University and author of “Why Do Foreign Sumo Wrestlers Speak Fluent Japanese?” A Changing Sumo Will Welcome a Slipper-Clad Trump Into the Ring 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z A group of linguists, technologists and sound designers are experimenting with a genderless digital voice, made from real voices and called Q. 'Alexa, are you perpetrating bias?' 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z According to the linguist, she grew angry at random moments. A CIA suicide sparks hard questions about the agency’s Memorial Wall 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z A certain percentage of the associate linguists will get project manager. 'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z His mother, a linguist who had worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II-era espionage agency, was a homemaker. Robert Pear, scrupulous chronicler of health care for the New York Times, dies at 69 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z A former FBI linguist allegedly obstructed a bureau investigation after he lied to officials when he heard a suspect in a terrorism investigation leave a message on his own voicemail. Former FBI linguist charged with lying to authorities about contact with terrorist 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z And Boas also co-wrote the book with George Hunt, a Native Canadian who was a linguist and ethnologist. An anthropology pioneer’s complicated legacy about a Native Canadian tribe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z |
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