Sentence examples for a written word from inspiring English sources

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.

"Dyslexic children learned to orient and focus their attention more efficiently to extract the relevant information of a written word more rapidly".

We conclude that accessing the meaning of a written word is automatic in the two languages even when fluent bilingual adults are instructed to disregard words in one of their languages.

A few examples of this type of gesture include pointing to part of an equation, using a finger to underline an important definition, and gesturing to a written word with an open hand (see Fig. 4 for an example).

After all, in Jinsai's view, ri, which as a written word depicts the veins in a piece of jade, was a "dead word," i.e., one that refers to an inanimate order not typically associated with the vitality of the human world.

There is nothing to be objected to in the claim that the situations in which we encounter a written word and come to be in a position to know what that word means are situations in which our sensory transducers respond firstly to simple nonsemantic properties of the word.

A secretary then transcribed the recorded sessions into a written, word-by-word format.

A number of tests from the 64-item Cambridge Semantic Battery (Bozeat et al., 2000) were also included: the spoken word-to-picture matching task; a written word-to-picture matching version of the same task; the picture version of the Camel and Cactus Test; and the picture naming test.

By contrast, a few miles away is lovely old Town Hall, a sanctuary for the written word.

She also comes across as a lover of the written word.

Lots of kids have never met anyone who earns a living from the written word.