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The West Australian
April 11, 2018
GALC senior linguist Sue Hanson said the talk offered an insight into a project of significant historical importance. “We had us linguists from the language centre and people from the historical society and people from the museums so it was really interesting to learn the project Mr Thieberger has beenÃâà...
Waxahachie Daily Light
April 3, 2018
Hope Clinic chief executive officer Barbara Clark has announced that Dr. Peggy Linguist began serving as Chief Medical Officer, effective March 1. ... Dr. Mondragon, who served as CMO starting in February 2016, said Dr. Linguist epitomizes the mission of Hope Clinic, which is to show the light of God'sÃâà...
MIT News
April 3, 2018
... MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, said Halle was a profoundly influential researcher and educator — and a touchstone for MIT linguists over .... In a 1974 lecture that Halle made before the members of the Linguistic Society of America, he characteristically declared that “the linguist must beÃâà...
Security Boulevard
April 1, 2018
From SecOps to DevSecOps and SecDevOps, there seems to be an unending stream of new buzzwords in systems technology. With all this jargon, increasingly stories can read more like inside baseball rather than an intentional strategy. To understand insertion of “Security” into “'DevOps”, we need toÃâà...
Archaeology
March 31, 2018
CALLAGHAN, AUSTRALIA—According to a BBC News report, a new study has traced all of Australia's indigenous languages back to a single, common language known as Proto-Australian, spoken some 10,000 years ago. Mark Harvey of the University of Newcastle and Robert Mailhammer of WesternÃâà...
Robins Rev Up
March 19, 2018
Molding better Americans is the motivation behind a new foreign language scholarship created for Washington State University students by alumnus Christopher “CJ” Johnson ('02), a lieutenant colonel linguist in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. PRINT | E-MAIL. PULLMAN, Wash -- Molding better Americans isÃâà...
Waxahachie Daily Light
March 19, 2018
Hope Clinic chief executive officer Barbara Clark has announced that Dr. Peggy Linguist began serving as Chief Medical Officer, effective March 1. ... Dr. Mondragon, who served as CMO starting in February 2016, said Dr. Linguist epitomizes the mission of Hope Clinic, which is to show the light of God'sÃâà...
The Hindu
March 18, 2018
Linguists, representing ten literary bodies, expressed their protest against the State government's alleged indifference to implementation of Telugu language in official communication and teaching in educational institutions. Official communication. In a novel protest, members of Telugu BhashodyamaÃâà...
St. Louis American
March 15, 2018
To show off her city's accent, she curated a list of words that end with an “R” sound – chair, hair, millionaire – and posted them on Twitter with the hashtag #314DayAccentChallenge. The words highlight a unique feature of a local accent that has been celebrated by St. Louis rappers and studied by linguists.
The Conversation AU
March 14, 2018
Speech and writing seem similar enough – so much so that for centuries, people (linguists included) were blind to the differences. ... According to an article published last year by Norwegian linguist Dania Bonneess, the change towards the singular form “there is” has been with us in New Zealand EnglishÃâà...
ArmyTimes.com
March 14, 2018
As a result, promotions have stagnated in the community, so the Army is taking steps to re-classify linguists by dialect, rather than as general Arabic speakers. ... Chief Warrant Officer Four Gary Callister, Arabic linguist manager for the 300th Military Intelligence Brigade (Linguist), shares a meal during aÃâà...
Quartz
March 8, 2018
Perhaps few people have listened to as many conversations they weren't actually a part of as Nick Enfield, professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney in Australia, and author of the recently published How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation. In it, Enfield talks about the rules for talking,Ãâà...
SF Weekly
March 7, 2018
A facility with language comes easily for certain people. Some of us can do the Saturday New York Times crossword in pen in one sitting, while others say “all of the sudden” or send out press releases full of the non-word word “impactful.” But for cocktail-party cachet, few things impress people like revealingÃâà...
Scientific American
March 4, 2018
For instance, linguists know that dropping the “r” sounds at the end of words is actually common in many English dialects; they can map in space and time how ... As a linguist and a biologist who studies cultural evolution, we wanted to see how much information we could glean from a snapshot of how aÃâà...
Language Magazine
March 2, 2018
A language previously unknown to linguists has been discovered by Swedish researchers. The language, Jedek, is spoken by only 280 people on the Malay peninsula. The language was discovered to be spoken in a town that was previously studied by anthropologists. The language first became knownÃâà...
Slator
February 26, 2018
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is strengthening its training program for Francophone translators by partnering with academia in the education of translators, terminology discussions, research, and recruitment. The alliance recently announced a cooperation agreement with ISIT, a FrenchÃâà...
The Nation
February 21, 2018
GUJRAT-Linguists, scholars and experts this 'mother day' focused their gaze on CPEC and painted a rosy picture of the country's much mega economic project by building a scenario in which linguistic ... One cannot claim to be a linguist without being good at their own mother tongue,” Sheikh Rashid said.
Tribune-Review
February 21, 2018
When it comes to the final season of HBO's smash hit “Game of Thrones,” linguist David Peterson is as tight-lipped as the rest of the cast and crew. He's not giving up any spoilers, but the man who created the Dothraki and Valyrian languages spoken by characters like Khal Drogo and Daenaerys TargaryenÃâà...
The indy100
February 17, 2018
A fellow Tumblr user going by the name of Rhysiare, who describes himself as a linguist, felt the need to point out that her argument was 'wrong on many levels' and proceeded to explain why. In a lengthy post, he detailed why certain words appear to have a patriarchal element to them but that language isÃâà...
News Today
December 31, 1999
Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad yesterday said two languages which were lying hidden from linguists have been discovered by a professor of linguistics in the institution. As a part of the activity of the Centre for Endangered Languages and Mother Tongue Studies, Prof Panchanan MohantyÃâà...
Waxahachie Daily Light
December 31, 1999
“I was really happy because a lot of other students from my school got them,” Linguist shared. “It was also nice seeing them recognize someone playing someone who has autism or any type of mental disability or challenge they go through as not just the Gilbert Grape kind of thing. They recognized it whichÃâà...
North Texas Daily
December 31, 1999
This is the case for Lamkang, a northeastern Indian language spoken mainly in communities within the state of Manipur. Native speaker Sumshot Khular is collaborating with linguists in the Computational Resources on South Asian Languages group at UNT to help create a standard dictionary and spellingÃâà...
Business Line
December 31, 1999
A linguist from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has stumbled on two languages called Walmiki and Malhar both predominantly in the remote region's of Odisha. The languages are ... India is also considered a linguists Paradise and termed a sociolinguistic giant, the University said in a press release.
Hindustan Times
December 31, 1999
As a part of the activity of the Centre for Endangered Languages and Mother Tongue Studies, Prof Panchanan Mohanty discovered two languages recently, which were “lying hidden from linguists”, a university release said. One of them is calledWalmiki and is spoken in the district of Koraput of OdishaandÃâà...
Open Democracy
December 31, 1999
As many as ten MIT linguists worked on this MITRE project and a number of them have recently been in contact with me. They recall that between 1963 and 1965, Chomsky actually worked as a consultant on this Air Force sponsored project at MITRE. According to Chomsky's students, the militaryÃâà...
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