Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

Some historical linguists presume that all languages go back to a single common ancestor.

According to several linguists, neurocognitive research has confirmed many standards of language learning, such as: " learning engages the entire person ( cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains ), the human brain seeks patterns in its searching for meaning, emotions affect all aspects of learning, retention and recall, past experience always affects new learning, the brain's working memory has a limited capacity, lecture usually results in the lowest degree of retention, rehearsal is essential for retention, practice does not make perfect, and each brain is unique " ( Sousa, 2006, p. 274 ).

A principal source for the items in Illich-Svitych ’ s dictionary was the earlier work of Alfredo Trombetti ( 1866 – 1929 ), an Italian linguist who had developed a classification scheme for all the world ’ s languages, widely reviled at the time and subsequently ignored by almost all linguists.

Modern linguists use the word " germanic " to refer to people speaking Germanic languages and it is possible that all or part of the Belgae were Germanic in this sense.

Old Church Slavonic is valuable to historical linguists since it preserves archaic features believed to have once been common to all Slavic languages.

Increasingly, however, it became the ambition of linguists to formulate general and exceptionless rules of sound change that would account for all the data ( or as close to all the data as possible ), not merely for a well-behaved subset of it ( see Neogrammarians ).

Because of the sociohistoric similarities amongst many ( but by no means all ) of the creoles, the Atlantic slave trade and the plantation system of the European colonies have been emphasized as factors by linguists such as.

A number of philosophers and linguists claim that all definitions of a proposition are too vague to be useful.

: The Danish scholar Vilhelm Thomsen ( 1842-1927 ) was one of the greatest linguists of all times.

Like all other Polynesian languages, Tuvaluan descends from an ancestral language, which historical linguists refer to as " Proto-Polynesian ", which was spoken perhaps about 2, 000 years ago.

In an interview on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, Dr. McWhorter characterized AAVE as a " hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects ..." According to Dr. McWhorter, virtually all linguists who have carefully studied the origins of AAVE " agree that the West African connection is quite minor.

Mainland Southeast Asia ( MSEA ) is one of the most dramatic of linguistic areas in terms of the surface similarity of the languages involved, to the extent that early linguists tended to group them all into a single family, although the modern consensus places them into numerous unrelated families.

Many languages throughout North America are polysynthetic ( Eskimo – Aleut languages are extreme examples ), although this is not characteristic of all North American languages ( contrary to what was believed by 19th-century linguists ).

Historical linguists are uncertain whether the augment is a feature that was added to these branches of Indo-European, or whether the augment was present in the parent language and lost by all other branches ( see also Proto-Greek ).

One debate among 20th-century linguists revolved around the question of whether small children learn all verb forms as separate pieces of vocabulary or whether they deduce forms by the application of rules.

Some linguists use the word " preposition " instead of " adposition " for all three cases.

The linguists of the Romanian Academy in Romania declared that all the Moldovan words are also Romanian words, although some of its contents are disputed as being Russian loanwords.

Some linguists name the branch " the Luwian Group " or just " Luwian ," and in that sense Luwian means all the Luwian languages.

Filipino linguists consider the dialect of Coastal Bikol called Bikol Central spoken around Naga City as the standard Bikol easily understood by all Bicolanos.

Most of the scholars that specialize in the field of mythological studies and Slavic linguistics ( such as Boris Rybakov, Andrey Zaliznyak, Leo Klein and all Russian academic historians and linguists ) consider it a forgery.

His band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, was one of the most popular, hard-rocking bar bands in east New Jersey ( Buckaroo plays electric guitar and pocket trumpet ), though its members ( bearing names like Rawhide, Reno, the Swede, Perfect Tommy, Big Norse, and Pecos Bill ) were not professional musicians at all, but rather cartographers and botanists, linguists and propellant engineers, an entomologist and an epidemiologist.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

`` Squaresville, man, and all the palazzos are crummy Palasts ''.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

Most of them are Democrats and nearly all consider themselves, and are viewed as, liberals.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

These are traversed by another line of vaults, and thus rooms, arched on all four sides, are formed.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.

We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

the tricks that time plays with memory and memory with time are queerest of all.

the miraculous way in which music, revelation and death are associated in a single instant -- all this seems a triumph of art, a rather desperate art, in itself ; ;

The Poetics, in affirming that all human arts are `` modes of imitation '', gives a more serious role to artistic mimesis than did Plato.