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By examining bodies of written work, linguists can track the rise of such language quirks, says Kimberly Becker, a linguist and co-host of the “Women Talkin’ ‘Bout AI” podcast.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 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
In 2020, photographer Caitlin O’Hara snapped linguist Rachid Baligh of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Marrakesh, Morocco, with his family, his 2015 Ural cT motorcycle, and his miniature schnauzer, Lola, in the Arizona desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
Adam Aleksic, a linguist who posts online as Etymology Nerd, says locking in's origins aren't certain but its use appears to have begun in the early 2000s - particularly in the African American community.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
From today’s vantage, the attack seems to have begun, paradoxically, with the publication in 1986 of a landmark pro-Clovis paper in Current Anthropology by a linguist, a physical anthropologist, and a geneticist.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
That sentence structure is popping up everywhere these days, and linguists tie its popularity to AI models.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
The Africa Next Voices project brought together linguists and computer scientists to create AI-ready datasets in 18 African languages.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
But it’s clear that the phenomenon is not just the tweedy concern of linguists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
The team, which comprised musicologists, psychologists, linguists, evolutionary biologists and professional musicians, recorded songs in 55 languages, including Arabic, Balinese, Basque, Cherokee, Maori, Ukrainian and Yoruba.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
From this, linguists conclude that ten was the basic unit in the Germanic protolanguages that English came from, and thus those people used a base-10 number system.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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