Year: 2019
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The Top Linguists
Steven Pinker (1954)
Steven Arthur Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker He is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and Canadian writer. He is a professor at Harvard College and…
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Noam Chomsky (1928 )
Noam Chomsky (1928 ) On December 7, 1928 was born in Philadelphia, United States, Noam Chomsky, philosopher, linguist and activist. He…
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Paul Grice (1913 – 1988)
Paul Grice Herbert Paul Grice ( 13 of March of 1913 , Birmingham , England – 28 of August of…
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Edward Sapir (1884 – 1939)
Edward Sapir (1884 – 1939) Edward Sapir ( 1884 – 1939 ) was an anthropologist – American linguist . It…
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Roman Jakobson: (Moscow, 1896 – Boston, 1982)
Roman Jakobson Roman Jakobson, (Moscow, 1896 – Boston, 1982) Russian linguist and philologist. Before his graduation in 1918 he participated…
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Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) the founder of linguistic structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) The Swiss Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is considered the founder of linguistic structuralism, which begins its…
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Language and Linguistics
The origin of language summary/theories of language origin
The Origins of Human Language How human language was born is a question that has been tormenting researchers for centuries.…
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Phonology
What is prosody in speech/Prosodic language/Emotional prosody
Speech prosody The prosody is the melody tonal used to the talk . The prosodic level of women is higher since they have more tones in their speech . The feminine prosodic level has more musicality than the masculine one ; which…
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Suprasegmental characteristics in speech definition and features
Introduction A suprasegment is called a type of information that is in the signal and that is not directly related…
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Language and Linguistics
What is morpheme and its types/dependent/independent
Morphemes A morpheme is the smallest part of a word that is capable of expressing meaning on its own. It can go…
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