Kehinde Wiley

It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated, budding linguist who really inspired us. Some of the leading indicators of success in the world have to do with how many books are in the house when you're a kid.

American Artist

Tony Hoare

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

British Scientist

Jeffrey Kluger

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

American Writer

Moses Mendelssohn

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

German Philosopher

John McWhorter

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

Steven Pinker

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Canadian Scientist

Jane Hawking

Although a linguist, I was always interested in, and fascinated by, Stephen's explanations of his work and proud of his discoveries and achievements.

English Author

Owen Jones

Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.

British Journalist

Ishaan Khatter

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

Indian Actor

Deborah Tannen

Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.

American Sociologist

The term suggests a love or strong interest in learning multiple languages, not just academic study.

Language Enthusiast

Being a linguist does not necessarily mean one translates languages professionally, which is a common misconception.

Not a Translator

Linguists may offer deep cultural understandings through their knowledge of languages and regional dialects.

Cultural Insight

This definition points to linguistics as a science, where language is studied for research or application.

Technical Field

A linguist in this context studies the structure, not simply the usage or fluency, of languages.

Not Just Speaking

Linguists may work with artificial intelligence, helping computers understand and generate human language.

Tech Applications

 linguists can determine relationships, trace specific steps in their evolution and even reconstruct earlier languages with no written records. Linguistics can even reveal other important historical clues, such as determining the geographic origins and lifestyles of ancient peoples based on which of their words were native,

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 german linguist drew a map on a napkin for me and i transferred it into my journal and I left the next day and on a bus right into the mountains a woman turned around me after about two hours and said where are you going and I said well I'm gonna camp when the bus stops at the end of the road and she just

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 but it may have been measuring something like how much resources kids are exposed to at home, in which case, those kids need different types of support at school. They really don't need English language assistance. Another thing that she mentioned caught my attention as a linguist.

Who counts as a speaker...

 a filled pause lets your listeners know an important word is on the way. Linguists have even found that people are more likely to remember a word if it comes after a hesitation. Hesitation phenomena aren’t the only parts of speech that take on new meaning during dialogue.

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 into paid work what do we need to do to support their efforts the things that Amara does they approach every project as a collaborative team effectively a cooperative of linguists and transcribers coming together to work and they make sure that their schedules are

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 All of us have deeply held beliefs about language such as the belief that some languages are more beautiful than others or that some ways of using language are more correct. And as most linguists know, these beliefs are often less about language itself

Language around gender...

 And his life -- the transformation of his life from deprivation and what one would expect -- potentially prison or death -- he become a linguist, a trainer for the 76ers and now is a motivational speaker. And he gives play as a transformative force

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 which linguists often call usage, as opposed to grammar. Now, sometimes people use this kind of rules-based grammar to discourage people from making up words. And I think that is, well, stupid. So, for example, people are always telling you,

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 so shopping lists birthday cards post-it notes when you're scrolling a dirty joke on the wall of a public toilet are you thinking down the line this could be a very valuable piece of evidence for linguists also are you thinking about

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 impressive repertoire of language have been recently found to use up to five vowel sounds this puts per Boone's up there is one of the most advanced animal linguists known to science their tongues also contain the same