这些理论现已大多受到语言学家的质疑。
在语言学家内部当然也有相互斗争的派别。
Within the profession of linguists there are, of course, fighting factions.
正如一位语言学家曾经说过的那样:“你可以让人们认为这是无稽之谈,但同时你又会相信它。”
As a linguist once said, "You can get people to think it's nonsense at the same time that you buy into it."
正如一位语言学家曾经说过的那样:“你可以让人们认为它是无稽之谈,但同时你又对它深信不疑。”
As a linguist once said, "You can get people to think it's nonsense at the same time that you buy into it. “
卡明斯大胆地试验了这一原则,他吸引了语言学家的注意,尤其是一位名叫戴尔·海姆斯的语言学家。
Cummings boldly experimented with this principle, and he attracted the attention of the linguists, particularly a linguist named Dell Hymes.
然而,本世纪初的其他语言学家不那么热衷于处理来自“异国”语言的奇异数据,他们并不总是如此感激。
Other linguists in the earlier part of this century, however, who were less eager to deal with bizarre data from "exotic" language, were not always so grateful.
然而,本世纪初的其他语言学家不那么热衷于处理来自“异国”语言的奇异数据,他们并不总是如此感激。
Other linguists in the earlier part of this century, however, who were less eager to deal with bizarre data from "exotic" language, were not always so grateful.
原始印欧语是一门经过重构得出的语言,也就是说,这就是语言学家总结出梵语、拉丁语和希腊语的母系语言的样子。
Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language, meaning, it is what linguists concluded a parent language of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek would have to be like.
1941年去世的美国语言学家本杰明·李·沃尔夫认为,每种语言都蕴含着一种世界观,这种世界观会对使用者产生重大影响。
Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who died in 1941, held that each language encodes a worldview that significantly influences its speakers.
1958年,中国语言学家周有光和他的团队设计了拼音。
In 1958, pinyin was designed by Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang and his team.
语言学家们在每年的10月16日庆祝他的生日。
语言学家认为,在大多数人关心政治自由的时候,它帮助一个新国家实现了统一和文化独立。
Linguists believed it helped a new country achieve unity and cultural independence at a time when most people cared about political freedom.
萨卡什维利已与荷兰语言学家桑德拉·罗洛夫斯结婚
关于其语义特征,一些语言学家认为“-men”在人称代词后是复数标记。
Concerning the semantic formula of -men, some linguists posit that -men is a plural marker in pronouns.
艾蒂安·多莱特是一位语言学家。
回答:“对”和“错”不是语言学家使用的词。
很多语言学家提出,我们在未来将使用双语甚至三语。
Many linguists suggest that the future facing us is bilingual or even trilingual.
表1定义了语言学家和专业翻译人员使用的一些常用术语。
Table 1 defines a few of the common terms used by linguists and translation specialists.
加上柯罗语,语言学家统计到现金全世界有6909种语言。
加上柯罗语,语言学家统计到现金全世界有6909种语言。
大部分语言学家通过单词或者语法结构的改变来追踪语言进化的过程。
Most linguists use changes in words or grammatical structures to try to track language evolution.
语言学家们已经辨认出数千个来自各种西非语言的确定无误的非洲文字。
Thousands of distinct African words coming from various West African languages have been identified by linguists.
而语言学家们知道这些条件,他们会说“世界上没有语言会这样表达”。
And linguists have all of these conditions they say, "No language in the world works this way."
在记录词汇的时候,语言学家们发现了第三种语言——珂珞语。
While recording the vocabularies, they detected a third language — Koro.
语言学家的任务是揭示语言背后的结构规律,以及分析人类使用语言的习惯。
In general linguistics has for goal to uncover and formulate the hidden underlying rules and laws that govern language and its use in the life of humans.
对于语言学家来说,动词由不规则向规则过渡正体现了语法的变迁。
Linguists regard transitions from irregular to regular verb forms as key markers of grammatical change.
应用程序代码最适合由程序员来开发;如何显示正确的文本则是语言学家的工作。
Application code is best developed by the programmer; how to display the proper text is the job of the linguist.
大多数语言学家们都会回答“是的”,语言在很大程度上依赖于语法规则的使用。
And most linguists would argue "Yes," that languages are highly constrained in how they do things.
我们还是联系了语言学家和言语心理学家去找寻这背后可能存在的机制。
But we contacted linguists and speech pathologists to glean more about the mechanisms that might be behind the mix-up.
我们还是联系了语言学家和言语心理学家去找寻这背后可能存在的机制。
But we contacted linguists and speech pathologists to glean more about the mechanisms that might be behind the mix-up.
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