linguistics

Example Sentences

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After attaining his Korean linguistics PhD, he taught at a university before realizing he preferred being out in the field, joining the institute in 2007.

From Los Angeles Times

She studied Sanskrit, but her research in University of Chicago spanned Indian and European languages - French, German, Marathi, and Hindi - and touched on linguistics, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and more.

From BBC

The experiment, the researchers note, is the result of interdisciplinary research bridging psychology and linguistics -- in this case, mobilizing the linguistics concept of focus to address an issue of interest in both fields.

From Science Daily

But Clark said students should be aware of the great variance among majors — the transfer admission rate for computer science is 5%, for instance, compared with 60%-plus for history, linguistics and philosophy.

From Los Angeles Times

One 2009 linguistics study timed these differences - showing that, on average, Japanese speakers took seven milliseconds to respond while Danish speakers took about 470 milliseconds to intervene.

From BBC