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    John Sampson (1862–1931) was an Irish linguist, literary scholar and librarian. As a scholar he is best known for The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales (1926)...
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  • John Sampson may refer to: John Sampson (13th century), Constable of Stirling Castle John Sampson (linguist) (1862–1931), Irish linguist John Sampson...
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    Victoria Cross was born in the area Ralph Allan Sampson, astronomer, born here John Sampson, linguist and Romani scholar, born here[citation needed] Sophie...
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  • original book under various titles. He was the grandson of the linguist John Sampson, of whom he wrote a biography, The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For...
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  • Dorset. His daughter, Peggie Sampson (1912-2004) was a professional cellist and educator. His brother John Sampson was a linguist and Romany scholar. The Eclipses...
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    village. The village retains its primary school. John Edward Jones (Welsh politician) John Sampson (linguist) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Betws...
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  • Sampson is a surname, and may refer to: Aaron Sampson, several people Adrian Sampson (born 1991), baseball player Agnes Sampson, (died 1591), Scottish...
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  • A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics). Ambiguously, the word is sometimes...
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  • its meaning independently of speech". Although Sampson did not mention his source, American linguist John DeFrancis (1989) traced it to Diringer, and ultimately...
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    BRILL. ISBN 9004064060. Sampson, Geoffrey (2013). "Gladstone as Linguist". Journal of Literary Semantics. 4. Wilford, John Noble (December 20, 1983)...
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  • Arthur Sampson Napier FBA (1853–1916) was a British philologist. He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, from...
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  • Geoffrey Sampson (born 1944) is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. He produces annotation...
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    study of meaning. Non-empiricism Contrary to Hockett, British linguist Geoffrey Sampson thought that Chomsky's assumptions about a well-defined grammaticality...
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    Croatan (category Sampson County, North Carolina)
    The Croatan people who exist today live predominantly in Cumberland, Sampson, and Harnett counties. The chiefs, called werowances ("he who is rich")...
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  • Dora Yates (category Linguists of Romani)
    Yates (26 November 1879 – 12 January 1974) was a British bibliographer, linguist and Romani scholar. She understood every dialect of Romani and she became...
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    John Viccars (1604–1653?) was an English linguist and biblical scholar. The elder son of Gregory Viccars of Treswell in Nottinghamshire, he was baptised...
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  • book by Geoffrey Sampson, providing arguments against Noam Chomsky's theory of a human instinct for (first) language acquisition. Sampson explains the original...
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    the tones differing. The poem was written in the 1930s by the Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao as a linguistic demonstration. The poem is coherent and grammatical...
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  • Some languages contrast oral vowels and nasalized vowels phonemically. Linguists make use of minimal pairs to decide whether or not the nasality is of...
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  • boy kicked is a friend of mine"), double center embedding is not. The linguist Anne De Roeck and colleagues provided a counter-example: "Isn't it true...
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    Lakota activist and actor Will Rogers, Cherokee actor and humorist Will Sampson, Muscogee Nation painter and actor Eddie Spears, Brulé Lakota actor Michael...
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  • the belief by John Locke that our knowledge, including language, cannot be innate and is instead derived from experience. Geoffrey Sampson also showed the...
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  • after which she became a ward of the state of California. Psychologists, linguists, and other scientists almost immediately focused a great deal of attention...
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  • Linguistics. 1: 289–310. doi:10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-125024. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0019-DA19-1. Sampson, Geoffrey (2005). The 'Language Instinct'...
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  • language with retained Romani-derived vocabulary – these are known by linguists as Para-Romani varieties, rather than dialects of the Romani language...
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  • terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history...
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    August Schleicher (category Historical linguists)
    (German: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈʃlaɪçɐ]; 19 February 1821 – 6 December 1868) was a German linguist. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories...
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  • than the result of decreolization from a widespread American creole. Linguist John McWhorter maintains that the contribution of West African languages...
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  • Silverthorn (1896–1985), Navy Cross recipient and LtGen, U.S. Marine Corps. Sampson Simson, lawyer and philanthropist David Simpson (1860–1931), builder, contractor...
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  • player and coach Ross Mathews (born 1979), American television personality Sampson Mathews (c. 1737–1807), politician, Revolutionary War soldier Sherin Mathews...
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