The music draws from all elements of Messiaen's language: modal harmonies, cluster chords thick with tart dissonance, metrically complex meters based on Hindu and Greek rhythms, chantlike melodies and skittish bird calls.
The aim of the grammarians was to explore how a word (an element of language) matched things apprehended by the mind and how it signified reality.
26 A limitation of our study is that only studies written in English will be included and this may introduce an element of language bias.
However, in all cases, the basic elements of language are actions, situations, and fluents.
As for oratory, Corbyn seems instinctively averse to all those elements of spoken language – cadence, musicality, metaphor – that sway the listener irrationally.
Only a few, like Dr. Joseph Greenberg of Stanford, believe that some elements of language remain constant, enough to reconstruct all the world's languages into just 14 superfamilies of a much great antiquity.
Not all poets are so minutely interested in the tiniest elements of language: each poet has, so to speak, a chief plane of linguistic interest — sonic, etymological, lexical.
The work is a familiar mix of video, photography, performance, installation and sculpture that uses elements of language, identity and exotic zoology, all held together by a restrained, poetic lyricism.
The music draws upon all elements of Messiaen's distinctive musical language: gloriously messy cluster chords thick with tart dissonances; shifting and complex meters based on rhythms from Greek and Hindu music; chantlike melodies; and skittish, quicksilver evocations of Messiaen's beloved bird calls.
Mr. Ahmadinejad might have listened to Mr. Singh: India and Iran are cultural cousins, sharing elements of language and culture.
In one study, babies learned elements of language more effectively when face-to-face with a teacher or on video.
