Linguist
noun
A person who studies languages or can speak many languages.
He is a linguist, fluent in five different languages.
Often appears as...
- fluent linguist
- professional linguist
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Academic
noun
An expert or specialist in linguistics.
As a linguist, he focuses on the analysis of human language structure and its application in AI technology.
Often appears as...
- linguist specialist
- cognitive linguist
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Technical
noun
A person who studies languages or can speak many languages.
He is a linguist, fluent in five different languages.
Often appears as...
- fluent linguist
- professional linguist
Usage tips
Academic
noun
An expert or specialist in linguistics.
As a linguist, he focuses on the analysis of human language structure and its application in AI technology.
Often appears as...
- linguist specialist
- cognitive linguist
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Language Enthusiast
The term suggests a love or strong interest in learning multiple languages, not just academic study.
As a true linguist, Marco enjoys the challenge of learning new languages during his travels.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Translator
Being a linguist does not necessarily mean one translates languages professionally, which is a common misconception.
While she's a linguist with knowledge of eight languages, she doesn't work as a translator.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Insight
Linguists may offer deep cultural understandings through their knowledge of languages and regional dialects.
The linguist shared insights about local customs that weren't found in any guidebook.
Pro Tip 1/3Language Enthusiast
The term suggests a love or strong interest in learning multiple languages, not just academic study.
As a true linguist, Marco enjoys the challenge of learning new languages during his travels.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Translator
Being a linguist does not necessarily mean one translates languages professionally, which is a common misconception.
While she's a linguist with knowledge of eight languages, she doesn't work as a translator.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Insight
Linguists may offer deep cultural understandings through their knowledge of languages and regional dialects.
The linguist shared insights about local customs that weren't found in any guidebook.
Pro Tip 1/3Language Enthusiast
The term suggests a love or strong interest in learning multiple languages, not just academic study.
As a true linguist, Marco enjoys the challenge of learning new languages during his travels.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Translator
Being a linguist does not necessarily mean one translates languages professionally, which is a common misconception.
While she's a linguist with knowledge of eight languages, she doesn't work as a translator.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Insight
Linguists may offer deep cultural understandings through their knowledge of languages and regional dialects.
The linguist shared insights about local customs that weren't found in any guidebook.
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How languages evolve -...
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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A Photographer Revisits...
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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Who counts as a speaker...
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.
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Why do we, like,...
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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COVID-19 unraveled the...
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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Language around gender...
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
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Stuart Brown: Play is...
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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Erin McKean: Go ahead,...
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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The evolution of the...
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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Baboon Parenting PIPE Wild...
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
Video examples
How languages evolve -...
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,
Video examples
A Photographer Revisits...
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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Who counts as a speaker...
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.
Video examples
Why do we, like,...
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.
Video examples
COVID-19 unraveled the...
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
Video examples
Language around gender...
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
Video examples
Stuart Brown: Play is...
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
Video examples
Erin McKean: Go ahead,...
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,
Video examples
The evolution of the...
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
Video examples
Baboon Parenting PIPE Wild...
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
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
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.
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Tony Hoare
British Scientist
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.
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
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.
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Moses Mendelssohn
German Philosopher
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.
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John McWhorter
American Writer
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.
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Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
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Jane Hawking
English Author
Although a linguist, I was always interested in, and fascinated by, Stephen's explanations of his work and proud of his discoveries and achievements.
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Owen Jones
British Journalist
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.
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Ishaan Khatter
Indian Actor
I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.
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Deborah Tannen
American Sociologist
Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
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.
Quote examples
Tony Hoare
British Scientist
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.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
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.
Quote examples
Moses Mendelssohn
German Philosopher
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.
Quote examples
John McWhorter
American Writer
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.
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Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
Quote examples
Jane Hawking
English Author
Although a linguist, I was always interested in, and fascinated by, Stephen's explanations of his work and proud of his discoveries and achievements.
Quote examples
Owen Jones
British Journalist
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.
Quote examples
Ishaan Khatter
Indian Actor
I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.
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Deborah Tannen
American Sociologist
Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.
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