These theories are now largely discredited among linguists.
这些理论现已大多受到语言学家的质疑。
Within the profession of linguists there are, of course, fighting factions.
在语言学家内部当然也有相互斗争的派别。
Cummings boldly experimented with this principle, and he attracted the attention of the linguists, particularly a linguist named Dell Hymes.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
Linguists celebrate his birthday on October 16 every year.
语言学家们在每年的10月16日庆祝他的生日。
Linguists believed it helped a new country achieve unity and cultural independence at a time when most people cared about political freedom.
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。
Concerning the semantic formula of -men, some linguists posit that -men is a plural marker in pronouns.
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。
With Koro, linguists now count 6,909 languages worldwide.
加上柯罗语,语言学家统计到现金全世界有6909种语言。
With Koro, linguists now count 6, 909 languages worldwide.
加上柯罗语,语言学家统计到现金全世界有6909种语言。
But linguists such as Noam Chomsky were highly critical of the research.
但包括诺姆·乔姆斯基(Noam Chomsky)在内的语言学家却对上述研究提出了强烈批评。
Many linguists suggest that the future facing us is bilingual or even trilingual.
很多语言学家提出,我们在未来将使用双语甚至三语。
By age 10, linguists say, our ears become "stiff" and cannot learn new pronunciations.
语言学家说人到了十岁的时候耳朵就“僵化”了,没法再学习新的语音。
Table 1 defines a few of the common terms used by linguists and translation specialists.
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。
"Facebook," as a noun, verb or adjective, was popular with younger linguists, Glowka said.
格洛卡说,年轻的语言学家们更青睐Facebook一词,Facebook既可用作名词,也可用作形容词和动词。
Linguists are chronicling how nomadic communication changes language itself, and thus thought.
游牧式的交流正在改变语言本身以及人们的思维方式,语言学家正致力于这方面的编年史研究。
Most linguists use changes in words or grammatical structures to try to track language evolution.
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。
And most linguists would argue "Yes," that languages are highly constrained in how they do things.
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。
As for "subprime," Glowka said it is an odd word - at least as far as linguists are concerned.
格洛卡说“subprime”这个词有些怪——至少在语言学家们看来是这样。
And linguists have all of these conditions they say, "No language in the world works this way."
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”。
Some hobbyist linguists have even parsed the multiple spellings into computer code and a handy chart.
一些对此兴趣浓厚的语言学家甚至把各个拼写输入电脑,用编码和图表进行语法分析。
Linguists regard transitions from irregular to regular verb forms as key markers of grammatical change.
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。
At a rushing mountain river, the linguists crossed on a bamboo raft and entered the tiny village of Kichang.
语言学家们乘着一艘竹筏沿着迅急的河流从山上一直漂流而下,来到了这个名为Kichan的小山村。
Linguists study the way language works in the brain, and tend to leave condemnations of usage to grammarians.
语言学家研究的是语言在脑内工作的方式,他们倾向于把那些肃正用法的工作留给语法学家。
Ultimately, some linguists and computer scientists argue, technology will collapse the world's language barriers.
部分语言学家和计算机科学家认为,技术终将打破全世界语言障碍的壁垒。
Thousands of distinct African words coming from various West African languages have been identified by linguists.
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。
Instead, they heard a language, the linguists said, that sounded as different from Aka as English does from Japanese.
相反,语言学家称他们听到了一种与Aka语截然不同的语言,其区别之大有如英语与日语。
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.
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。
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