Sentence examples for a given language from inspiring English sources

They then decided to see if this was a good predictor of how many famous people spoke a given language.

Information theory provides a means for measuring redundancy or efficiency of symbolic representation within a given language.

On the other hand, the standard language can also be regarded as one of the dialects of a given language, though one that has attracted special prestige.

Influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure and in turn influencing Roman Jakobson, Trubetskoy redefined the phoneme functionally as the smallest distinctive unit within the structure of a given language, and he further broke these phonemes into their distinctive features.

After lots of study, few linguists now believe that a given language can do more than slightly alter what we pay attention to in a situation, usually through its grammar.

Phonemes are semantically significant sound types that constitute the spoken words in a given language.

To be sure, Chomsky has often claimed that all speakers of a given language acquire the same grammar.

For instance, Taylor (1976) provides a recursive definition of a collection of 'states of affairs' for a given language.

Language is a structure with rules for creating meaning that pre-exists any particular lexicon in a given language group.

In essence the axioms specify a family of possible support functions, {Pβ, Pγ, …, Pδ, …} for a given language L.

Solutions to the inference problem are evolved by optimizing the parameters of a covering grammar for a given language sample.