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  2. ILR scale - Wikipedia

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    able to use questions and answers for simple topics within a limited level of experience; the native speaker must strain and leverage contextual knowledge to understand what is said able to understand basic questions and speech, which allows for guides, such as slower speech or repetition, to aid understanding

  3. Linguistics in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In early studies of linguistics in the 1920s, it was incredibly common for an American linguist to focus on grammar and structure of languages native to North America, such as Chippewa, Ojibwa, Apache, Mohawk, and many other indigenous languages. Due to the origins of the study, there is extensive information on the dialects and structure of ...

  4. Defense Language Proficiency Tests - Wikipedia

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    The tests are used to assess the skill level of DoD linguists. Linguists are tested once a year in the skills of reading and listening. Test scores determine the amount of Foreign Language Proficiency Pay (FLPP) that a military linguist receives, and also whether they are qualified for certain positions that require language aptitude. DLPT ...

  5. Linguist List - Wikipedia

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    LINGUIST, a mailing list that forwards all postings to the subscriber directly or as a daily digest. [6] LINGLITE, a mailing list that forwards once a day a list of postings with titles and links to the subscribers. [7] The LINGUIST List mailing lists are free and open for subscription using a web interface. [8]

  6. Mark Liberman - Wikipedia

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    Mark Yoffe Liberman / ˈ l ɪ b ər m ə n / [1] is an American linguist.He is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dual appointment as Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science.

  7. Occupational prestige - Wikipedia

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    Job prestige did not become a fully developed concept until 1947 when the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), under the leadership of Cecil C. North, [3] conducted a survey which held questions regarding age, education, and income in regard to the prestige of certain jobs. This was the first time job prestige had ever been researched ...

  8. List of linguists - Wikipedia

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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 also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interpreter (especially in the military), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be ...

  9. Optimality theory - Wikipedia

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    Neither of these are truthful, which is a failing of writing out rankings in a linear fashion like this. These sorts of problems are the reason why most linguists utilize a lattice graph to represent necessary and sufficient rankings, as shown below. A diagram that represents the necessary rankings of constraints in this style is a Hasse diagram.