(1) The contract linguist must be able to obtain a Top Secret security clearance and undergo a language proficiency screening.(2) Our civilian contract linguist broke the language barrier.(3) She was a natural linguist and learnt Latin, Italian and English and studied their literatures.(4) she's a gifted linguist(5) He was also an accomplished linguist speaking nine foreign languages including Chinese and Tibetan.(6) He was a formidable linguist , speaking 25 languages and many more dialects.(7) He does have a list of books that he consults on a regular basis, but the trained eye will note that not one of them is a book by a professional linguist or even about linguistics.(8) He is, after all, a distinguished professor at MIT and the most renowned linguist of the 20th century.(9) He is an extraordinary linguist ; he studied Russian at university, but he is also versed in Chinese, English and French.(10) A skilled linguist , Marianne used her new-found freedom to become an interpreter for the British Army.(11) And because of increased force projection requirements, the need for skilled linguists is growing.(12) Descriptive linguists try to lay out a statement of what the conditions are for particular languages.(13) Biologists and linguists agree that language is an important species-specific property.(14) This explosion of linguistic novelty has sent linguists reeling, a bit.(15) Languages are becoming extinct, and many have never been studied by linguists .(16) Some linguists have expressed concern that learning a foreign language too early may impact unfavourably on learners' native tongue acquisition.
