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By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
Various research by linguists suggests that by the first year of life, the average child knows about 50 words, by the third year their vocabulary rises to 1,000 words, by age 4 approximately 5,000 words, and by the fifth year possibly 10,000 words.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
To help work out how Richard and his contemporaries might have sounded, Morley-Chisholm enlisted the help of professor David Crystal, a leading linguist and expert in 15th-century pronunciation.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Thanks to the work of linguists, historians, archaeologists and anthropologists, researchers know a lot about how different body parts are appraised in societies both small and large, from ancient times to the present day.
—Daniel Sznycer, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2025
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
Various research by linguists suggests that by the first year of life, the average child knows about 50 words, by the third year their vocabulary rises to 1,000 words, by age 4 approximately 5,000 words, and by the fifth year possibly 10,000 words.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
To help work out how Richard and his contemporaries might have sounded, Morley-Chisholm enlisted the help of professor David Crystal, a leading linguist and expert in 15th-century pronunciation.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Thanks to the work of linguists, historians, archaeologists and anthropologists, researchers know a lot about how different body parts are appraised in societies both small and large, from ancient times to the present day.
—Daniel Sznycer, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
Noun
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When the teens travel to Capri for a summer getaway, Parthenope develops a chance bond with one of her favorite authors, real-life novelist John Cheever, played by Gary Oldman.—
Mike Miller,
EW.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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On Boxing Day, 2022, Kureishi, a novelist and screenwriter, experienced an accident that left him tetraplegic.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Instead, Larson will win it behind the strength of Hendrick Motorsports, the New York Yankees of NASCAR — setting him up for another championship-contending Cup season and leaving all motorsport storytellers despondent, wondering what could’ve been.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Feb. 2025
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The writer of the issue was Peter David, a prolific genre storyteller whose own father fled the Nazis and who would later take to his website to compare the first Trump administration to Hitler.—
Darren Franich,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
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Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.—
Lilly Milman,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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In 2019, essayist Sarah Chihaya had a nervous breakdown that coincided with a bout of the titular anxiety disorder, which causes someone to have an intense and irrational fear of books and writing.—
Shannon Carlin,
TIME,
31 Jan. 2025
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With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.—
Nate Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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