Sentence examples for a universal linguistic from inspiring English sources

Thus, in contrast to Gongsun Long, their investigations were not aimed at establishing a universal linguistic system that could unify divergent models of language application.

The theory does not posit universal linguistic categories or structures for language; rather it provides a road map for identifying, describing and profiling categories and structures of particular languages, or any number of languages, in a systematic manner.

Despite mixing up Strax with the cast of Snow White, Doctor somehow has full grasp of his universal linguistic skills which he uses to flirt his way into the dinosaur's graces, keeping the latter from chowing down on the British parliament.

Pereira, F. et al. Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation.

We're often told that music is a universal language, crossing cultural, ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

It is believed that there is a certain universal cross-linguistic particularity behind emotions [57].

The particular degree of order versus disorder may either be a feature of each individual language, related to its specific linguistic rules, or it may reflect a universal property of the way humans communicate with each other.

It might be more appropriate to say that HCF identify recursion as a cognitive universal, not a linguistic one.

As the semantic map is derived from cross-linguistic comparison, it is believed to represent "a universal structure of conceptual knowledge (Croft 2001: 105)"; therefore, the configuration shown by the semantic map "is claimed to be universal (Haspelmath 2003: 213)".

In this case, linguistic and musical information are contained in one auditory signal that is also a universal form of human vocal expression.

Based on their cross-linguistic data (examples are given from about 21 languages), they argue for a universal classification of existential clauses as a sub-type of relational processes.