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The foreign ministry said the family of linguist and researcher Dennis Coyle had written to the supreme leader of Afghanistan, asking that he be released and pardoned for Eid.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
Michael Hahn, a linguist based in Saarbrücken, set out to answer that question with Richard Futrell from the University of California, Irvine.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026
“There’s Communications Hill featuring a tower that’s part of the history of Silicon Valley,” the speech-recognition linguist said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
A gifted linguist, she soon mastered Mayan dialects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
The linguist Mark Liberman calls them misnegations, and points out that “they’re easy to fail to miss”: After a couple of days in Surry County, I found myself no less closer to unraveling the riddle.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
That sentence structure is popping up everywhere these days, and linguists tie its popularity to AI models.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
In earlier research, linguists tried to avoid similarities between related or nearby languages by selecting samples from distant regions.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
But it’s clear that the phenomenon is not just the tweedy concern of linguists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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