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linguist

/ling-gwist/US // ˈlɪŋ gwɪst //UK // (ˈlɪŋɡwɪst) //

语言学家,语言学者,语言学家,语言工作者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a specialist in linguistics.
    • : a person who is skilled in several languages; polyglot.

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Examples

  • She started to read the work of linguist and political thinker Noam Chomsky in her spare time.

  • “Semantic change” is what linguists call it when the meaning of a word changes over time.

  • I recently talked to a gesture linguist to learn how people use their hands in different cultures.

  • The team consulted linguists to define the parameters for a “male” and “female” voice and figure out where they overlap.

  • That is Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist and linguist.

  • Global Linguist Solutions, LLC (GLS) and the U.S. Military thanks you for your service.

  • But as linguist Mark Liberman notes at Language Log, the president used the word “I” exactly 10 times in that speech.

  • For example, the creator/writer of Alice in Arabia is Brooke Eikmeier, a former US Army linguist in Arabic.

  • Utopia for Beginners Joshua Foer, The New Yorker An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented.

  • Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg gives the A-word the biography it so richly deserves.

  • Peter Elmsly, a partner of the celebrated Paul Valliant, and himself an importer of books and no mean critic and linguist, died.

  • Bora on April 27, 1852, this prelate was a man of great culture and a distinguished linguist, who had travelled considerably.

  • His mother was a highly educated woman, and was careful to make her son an accomplished linguist.

  • He was a marvellously alert man, an unusually good linguist, and a cosmopolitan to his finger-tips.

  • Edward Lhuyd died; a celebrated antiquary and linguist, and keeper of the Ashmolean museum.