Sentence examples for a linguistic unit from inspiring English sources

She explained, "You can't make a slip of the tongue with a linguistic unit if you haven't learned that unit".

In a separate strand of work, psycholinguistic studies have established a connection between information density and prominence in language the less expected a linguistic unit is in a particular context, the more likely it is to be linguistically marked.

But at the same time, this mental storage and the ability to view this mental image allows one to overcome the difficulty of non-simultaneity and construct a word or a linguistic unit as a collection of perceived sounds or words, as the case may be.

The researchers believe that these differences suggest that children who cannot yet read can understand that a written word represents a single linguistic unit, unlike a drawing.

SFL theory, on the other hand, does not claim universality for grammatical elements such as Subject, Actor or Theme (and even systems such as ASPECT, TENSE and MODALITY) nor does it claim universality in the order of elements in the clause or any linguistic unit, for that matter, as part of the theory of language.

In addition, given the possible variations in such experimental results, one may even question the psychological reality of word as a natural linguistic unit in Chinese (Hoosain 1992; Huang and Xue 2012).

Proto-Baltic, however, besides developing into an independent linguistic unit in the 2nd millennium bc, also began gradually to split.

aNote that a model set refers to the entire set of HMMs for a given voice, while a model refers to only one basic linguistic unit such as a phone or a word, in this article.

Human languages rely on numerous morphological processes to alter meaning, one prominent example being affixation, the addition of a morpheme (the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning), to a word stem (the part of the word that never changes), as for instance in the English word 'brother-hood' [6].

Also note that word-proximity has less obvious cut-off values, compared to 'sentence' which is a more clear-cut linguistic unit.

The basic linguistic unit is called a phoneme, denoted by a character enclosed with forward slashes or square braces (e.g. the symbol /i/ represents the vowel sound heard in the word team).1 Phonemes may be classified and described according to a number of criteria.