Dr Tony McEnery, of the University of Lancaster's Department of Linguistics, who has compiled a huge database of modern English usage, says children and teenagers are "quite productive" in their use of abusive language.

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Professor Salikoko S. Mufwene, of the department of linguistics at the University of Chicago, says the enslaved Africans and their descendants created the dialect in response to their own linguistic diversity.

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"Researchers are committed to a long term study of HSL with the goals of producing ... a dictionary (and) archived videotaped data, " s aid James Woodward, an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Mano.

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Noam Chomsky's left-wing politics eclipsed his scholarly work in linguistics.

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Dozens of officers surrounded and cordoned off the building, known as the Stata Center, which houses computer science laboratories as well as the department of linguistics and philosophy, according to MIT's website.

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Advanced university degree (Masters or equivalent) preferably in language sciences, translation or applied computational linguistics or in any of the Organization's domains: education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, communication and information.

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Representatives from Assemblies of God World Missions and Assemblies of God U.S. Missions expressed disagreement with Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics leadership in meetings held on August, 2011 and November, 2011.

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It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive time in any family meal, according to linguistics expert Lyn Fogle.

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