The phrase "a specific answer to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you are requesting or referring to a precise response regarding a particular question or topic.
Example: "I need a specific answer to my question about the project deadline."
Alternatives: "a precise response to" or "a definite answer to".
The psychologist Peter Bull describes her as a sphinx-like equivocator, author of a new technique of never giving a specific answer to a direct question.
There isn't time, she says, and "when I've not been given time, and been able to give a specific answer to it, people have been confused".
"I have asked our archaeologists to prepare a specific answer to the accusations, but I have to give them some time," he said.
It's aiming at students, professionals and others who are trying to do exploratory research across a topic, and aren't just looking for a specific answer to a question.
Descartes has a specific answer to this question: the human mind comes supplied with innate ideas that allow it to perceive the main properties of God (infinity and perfection), the essence of matter, and the essence of mind.
"We have the duty as the state to give a specific answer to an open territory, small and non-producing," Mr Conde said, adding that Uruguay's borders were used by cartels to smuggle drugs into neighbouring countries.
This constitutes a first specific answer to a research topic suggested by the author in the Preface of Hürlimann [3], namely the search for a general structure that belongs to the sets of finite atomic random variables by given moment structure.
Some of those who reject relative identity nevertheless accept that a cannot be identical with b, unless there is a more specific answer to the question whether a is the same thing as b.
Second - before you ever create content, ask yourself, "who will help amplify this, and why?" If you don't have a great, specific answer to that question, reconsider whether you should create it at all.
The assumption here is that for mental events, there is a most specific answer to the question, 'What is it?' that tells us what essentially the mental event is, and thereby specifies its fundamental kind.
Using the results of our model, we can now provide a more specific answer to this question.
