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For other uses of this term, see (disambiguation).

A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").

The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).

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@SugarHunnyIceT that was a good movie!...I was one of da people who had the clear bootleg lol..good movie doe
Play20 (Clifton Harmon) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:02:09 -0000
@SugarHunnyIceT that was a good movie!...I was one of da people who had the clear bootleg lol..good movie doe
I think I am sitting on the plane with the first people that came to America..getting ready to hear some ancient stories..
LoniLove (Loni Love) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:02:08 -0000
I think I am sitting on the plane with the first people that came to America..getting ready to hear some ancient stories..
You must look into other people as well as at them. #quote
joshcagwin (Josh Cagwin) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:02:08 -0000
You must look into other people as well as at them. #quote
I dislike people like you mommy -.-
HudaHudson (Huda Hudson) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:02:07 -0000
I dislike people like you mommy -.-
@Shinedownmusic can't wait for the show coming up. I'm surprised that searching on "shinedown" only sends 13.5% of people to shinedown.com.
adrenalytics (Andrew Pearlman) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:02:06 -0000
@Shinedownmusic can't wait for the show coming up. I'm surprised that searching on "shinedown" only sends 13.5% of people to shinedown.com.
@BTCare thanks for the support over the last week. This service is much better than the phone system, the people on the phones have no idea!
brenowers (Brendan Owers) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:02:06 -0000
@BTCare thanks for the support over the last week. This service is much better than the phone system, the people on the phones have no idea!

 
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Abbott, Barbara - Michigan State University - Interested in semantics and pragmatics of language. Holds a joint appointment in linguistics and philosophy.
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404 Beaver, David - Stanford University - Interested in semantics, pragmatics, and more specifically presupposition and dynamic semantics.
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Bigert, Johnny - Research into computational linguistics, natural language processing and language engineering.

Chung, Karen - Homepage with university-level materials and links in phonetics, linguistics and language learning, especially for Chinese and Taiwanese students as well as for general learners and linguists.

Cooper, Robin - Göteborg University - Computational linguist interested in situation semantics and Montague grammars.

Copeland, James - Rice University-Professor of linguistics.

Crystal, David - Author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of English LanguageLanguage Death and Language and the Internet
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Frantz, Don - University of Lethbridge professor working on the syntax and historical linguistics of Amerindian and African native languages.

Fujinami, Tsutomu - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - Researcher in knowledge science interested in semantics of natural language in general, and situation semantics in specific.

Geurts, Bart - Radboud University Nijmegen - Interested in semantics of natural language, especially presuppositions and Dynamic Logic.
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Graesser, Arthur C. - Full professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Memphis with interests in cognitive science, discourse processing, artificial intelligence and information processing.

404 Harley, Heidi - University of Arizona - Interest are syntax, lexical semantics and morphology.

Hartsuiker, Rob - Senior Lecturer at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Includes teaching material on language production, experimental material and a program to calculate word similarity.
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Hendriks, Petra - Home page of Petra Hendriks, professor at the Center for Language and Cognition at the University of Groningen.

Johnson, Angel M. - PhD student's website containing a regular journal of thoughts and study, a comprehensive bibliography, a feedback form and her completed thesis on online forms of communication.

Jusczyk, Peter W. - John Hopkins University - Infant language perception, first language acquisition, phonology and prosody.

Kempson, Ruth - Kings College, London - Principally interested in formal approaches to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. Joint originator, with Dov Gabbay, of the Labelled Deductive System for Natural Language Understanding.
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Krifka, Manfred - Professor in general linguistics at the Institute for German Speech and Linguistics, Humboldt University in Berlin. Interested in semantics and interrogatives.

Labov, William - University of Pennsylvania - Change in language and dialect, sociolinguistics. Principal investigator of the Phonological Atlas of North America, a massive survey of phonetic variation across the USA.

Llisterri, Joaquim - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Research and teaching in general and applied phonetics, general and applied linguistics, speech technologies and spoken language resources.
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Mugele, Bob - Experienced field linguist (nickname `Jungle Bob') and computational linguist.

Nouwen, Rick - University of Utrecht - Interested in dynamic semantics, generalized quantifiers theory, plurals, reflexives, reciprocals, NP-typology, and mereology.

Partee, Barbara H. - University of Massachusetts at Amherst - A distinguished early worker on Montague Grammar, the main line of her work lies in foundational aspects of semantics and its relationship to syntax.
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Peperkamp, Sharon - University of Paris 8. Research interests include phonological theory and early language acquisition.

Sergei Starostin's Home Page - The page will be devoted to databases in comparative linguistics.

Stokhof, Martin - University of Amsterdam - Collection of his papers, including his survey article `Questions' (written in collaboration with Jeroen Groenendijk), which appeared in the `Handbook of Logic and Language' (1997).

van Dijk, Teun A - University of Amsterdam - Interested in critical discourse studies, especially in the application discourse theory to politics, and racism.
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van Eijck, Jan - CWI, Amsterdam - Computational linguist, whose site includes details of Dynamo, an implementation of dynamic logic programming.

Whorf, Benjamin Lee - Biography, publications, and quotations.

Yee, Danny - Reviews of popular linguistics books.
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Zellner Keller, Brigitte - Annotated links to her publications in linguistics with focus on temporal structure of speech.
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Zuckerman, Ghil`ad Zuckermann - Academic website of Dr Ghil`ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxford), a linguist at the University of Cambridge whose interests include linguistics, Israel, Hebrew, Yiddish, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish and word games.

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