Sentence examples for a linguistic structure from inspiring English sources

He will say it is possible that we will discover in the future that language appeared in the human brain as a consequence of some as yet unknown physical law: perhaps biological systems like brains throw up a linguistic structure once they reach a certain level of complexity, in the way that certain compounds take on the structure of crystals.

In other words, a membership value is assigned to each item of data, and is transformed into a linguistic structure and then sent to the rule processing unit.

Each thinker wants to articulate, or at least gestures towards, an excess over what a linguistic structure can conceptualize, an excess that is not an abstract possibility but a real existence.

GM might be defined from the perspective of an integrated model as follows: GM is a linguistic structure that results from the stratal tension between ideational (experiential and logical) and interpersonal meanings in discourse semantics, and lexicogrammar.

A number of philosophers have argued that our cognitive representations have, or can have, a map-like rather than a linguistic structure (Lewis 1994; Braddon-Mitchell and Jackson 1996, Camp 2007; Rescorla 2009; though see Blumson 2012 and Johnson forthcoming for concerns about whether map-like and language-like structures are importantly distinct).

Search engines, unlike the tools linguists use to analyse standard corpora, do not allow searching for a particular linguistic structure, such as "[Noun phrase] far from [verb phrase]".

Among the advantages Stalnaker claims for this view is its smooth accommodation of gradual change and of what might, from the point of view of a discrete linguistic structure, be seen as problematically indeterminate belief contents.

One standard view of propositions takes propositions to be sets of possible worlds; another takes propositions to have something more closely resembling a linguistic logical structure (see structured propositions for a detailed exposition of this issue).

So, just for normal queries, queries that are not phrased as questions, there is a lot of linguistic structure.

Scholars of Native American languages recognized a need for a general theory of linguistic structure to aid analysis of languages that differed from Indo-European languages.

This study thus demonstrated that talkers' realization of a variable sound is a complex product of linguistic structure, speakers' background, and idiosyncratic preference.