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“We’re using speech and writing so interchangeably,” said Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor emerita at American University.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
To conduct their analysis, the team digitized the sign sequences into a database and evaluated them using tools from quantitative linguistics, including statistical modelling and machine learning classification algorithms.
From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026
Like many college kids, Allaire became interested in the work of Noam Chomsky, an American scholar known for his work in linguistics, political activism and social criticism.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 14, 2025
When she turned 57, Margaret went back to university, graduating with a PhD in applied linguistics.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2025
For the most part, archaeologists had lacked the expertise to address the anti-Clovis evidence from genetics and linguistics.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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