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The major data source for the linguist is not a corpus of attested utterances but a native speaker's intuitions.
Peter Farb, a linguist and anthropologist, carried out a fascinating study about baby talk.
He is a linguist and fluently speaks in Urdu, Persian, Tamil, Nepali, Bengali, Hindi and Assamese, besides English and Khasi languages.
A true Renaissance man, he is described by biographers as an artist, poet, writer, journalist, linguist, naturalist, and philosopher.
She worked as a contract linguist for the F.B.I. for about six months, translating material in Turkish, Persian and Azerbaijani.
As a Chomskyan linguist I would argue in favour of an ethical system based on our own innate ethics.
Malick hired a linguist to translate the script and to teach his native actors to speak Algonquin, a language extinct for the past 200 years.
But as any linguist would tell you, a word never has a single determinant meaning.
But in the Ewe language, linguist Felix Ameka points out that saying someone has red eyes means that they are completely focussed.
He is, after all, a distinguished professor at MIT and the most renowned linguist of the 20th century.
He was also an accomplished linguist speaking nine foreign languages including Chinese and Tibetan.
She was a natural linguist and learnt Latin, Italian and English and studied their literatures.
The contract linguist must be able to obtain a Top Secret security clearance and undergo a language proficiency screening.
If permission is granted, the linguist offers a libation to the god by pouring several drops of alcohol onto the ground.
He was a formidable linguist, speaking 25 languages and many more dialects.
At Oxford, she fell somewhat distantly in love with the poet and gifted linguist Frank Thompson.
A good linguist, from an early age he read and studied widely, and in 1901 wrote a letter of profound admiration in Dano-Norwegian to Ibsen.
The officers wanted to attend a naval conference in Berlin and were looking for a linguist who could give them a crash course in German.
Here was a formidable antiquarian and linguist, fluent in classical and romance languages, as well as Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Aramaic, Anglo-Saxon, and a half dozen others.
His active duty assignments included serving as a Chinese linguist with the Air Force Security Service and as a systems analyst in Strategic Air Command.
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A linguist of nearly 40 years standing, and nearly 20 years resident abroad.
Put your qualification as a resident merchant and as a linguist as strongly as you like.
It should not insist on making every alumnus a linguist or a mathematician.
His tongue is very voluble, which, with canting, proves him a linguist.
Melas is a Greek by extraction, as I understand, and he is a remarkable linguist.
A boyhood spent in the place, added to this ten days' stay, had made Owen something of a linguist.
It is a must for every linguist interested in pidgins and creoles, and I hope that it will soon also become a must for all speakers of Bislama.
Mr Plornish could not conceal his exultation in her accomplishments as a linguist.
Harvard linguist Steven Pinker maintains that bubbe meises are really made-up explanations without any basis in fact.
Bert got the news last, and chiefly in broken English, from a linguist among his mates.
This collection features 14 articles co-authored by the Dutch generative linguist Teun Hoekstra, widely considered one of the leading syntacticians in the field.
This one said he was the most gifted linguist in Genoa, as far as English was concerned, and that only two persons in the city beside himself could talk the language at all.
He was a natural linguist, and he kept notebooks, making a scientific study of the workers' slang or argot, until he could talk quite intelligibly.
They were carefully examined, and showed that he was a keen student of international politics, an indefatigable gossip, a remarkable linguist, and an untiring letter writer.
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