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释义 | 语言学家 “ I have decided to become a linguist, ” he wrote. Table1 defines a few of the common terms used by linguists and translation specialists. English, as most linguists know, is really a Creole language that has jettisoned most of its formerly Germanic character. But around half those languages are endangered, the victims of cultural change, ethnic shame, government repression and other factors, according to linguists. To the linguists, change is the only rule to be obeyed. Google Translate, which can so far handle52 languages, sidesteps the linguists’ theoretical question of what language is and how it works in the human brain. Mr. Lee is a graduate student studying language and the mind, not a historical linguist. If the kids find their grandparents' language uncool, all of the well- intentioned outside help by linguists is usually in vain, except for preserving the language as a museum-piece. A decade ago, it was thought that supervised learning was the way to do this: A team of linguists created dictionaries and grammar rules and taught them to the computer. Academic linguists of the era, Noam Chomsky chief among them, also viewed a language as a lexicon and a grammar, able to generate infinitely many different sentences out of a finite set of rules. The career options for a Gemini man are journalism, travel industry, media, interpreter, negotiator, linguist and so on. That we share not just the capacity for language in the way a linguist might assert, but that we share a certain common moral language. But we contacted linguists and speech pathologists to glean more about the mechanisms that might be behind the mix-up. Many evolutionary linguists believe that all human languages have descended from a single, primitive language, which itself evolved from the grunts and noises of the lower animals. Application code is best developed by the programmer; how to display the proper text is the job of the linguist. New York detectives are deployed in11 foreign cities, and departmental linguists at home including native speakers of Arabic, Pushtu and Bengali look and listen out for worrying chatter. The language was unknown to science and recently came to light during an expedition by linguists traveling in India on fellowships for National Geographic, the linguists said in telephone interviews. It sums up this wild place: the inventor of the web leads me through the work of a titan of modern architecture to one of the world's foremost linguists and anti-war activists. “ He Said, She Said,” by linguist Deborah Tannen, for instance, explains how all conversations and relationships between couples involve a combination of hierarchy and connection. |
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