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Sarah Becker
Sarah Cary Becker (February 14, 1813 – November 27, 1901), also known as Sarah Becker, was an American Linguistics, linguist of Spanish language, Spanish. Personal life Sarah Cary Tuckerman was born in 1813 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Her father was Joseph Tuckerman, a prominent clergyman in Boston. She married Alexander Christian Becker, who was two years her junior, becoming Sarah Cary Becker, and was widowed in her mid-30s in 1849. Their son, George Ferdinand Becker, went on to become an influential geologist. Becker learned Spanish and spent time living in Berkeley, California, Berkeley and San Francisco. As a linguist, she is known for her 1887 collection of Idiom, idioms, ''Spanish Idioms With Their English Equivalents: Embracing Nearly Ten Thousand Phrases''. She was among relatively few female linguists of Spanish in the United States in this period. She died in 1901, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel#First Shoreham Hotel, Shoreham in Washington, D.C. ''Spanish Idioms With T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguistics is concerned with both the cognitive and social aspects of language. It is considered a scientific field as well as an academic discipline; it has been classified as a social science, natural science, cognitive science,Thagard, PaulCognitive Science, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). or part of the humanities. Traditional areas of linguistic analysis correspond to phenomena found in human linguistic systems, such as syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences); semantics (meaning); morphology (structure of words); phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages); phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language); and pragmatics (how social con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |