Sentence examples for argued language from inspiring English sources

As Halliday has argued, language is probabilistic: part of the meaning of lexicogrammatical selections is in their relative frequencies.

"The F Word" argues language is ever-changing and that taboo words only carry a stigma if society allows them to, and attempts to reclaim and disempower the word "fag".

Influenced by Walter Benjamin's early theory of language, Scholem argued that language was of "divine origin" (however this is understood) and thus the experience of revelation was itself linguistic.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukFOR half a century an influential group of Western linguists, led by Noam Chomsky, have argued that language is an innate human faculty, the product of a "language organ" in the mind.

This view is perhaps most clearly expressed by MacDonald and Christiansen (2002) who argued that language processing tasks and linguistic working memory tasks should be considered as simply different measures of language processing skill.

A minority of linguists have argued that language loss is a natural process that should not be counteracted, and that documenting endangered languages for posterity is sufficient.

Wolfe returned to nonfiction with The Kingdom of Speech (2016), in which he sharply criticized Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky as he argued that language was not a result of evolution.

Noam Chomsky and his followers argued that language acquisition succeeds even though children are only exposed to severely limited evidence about the structure of their language (Chomsky 1967, 1975, 1988; see also Laurence & Margolis 2001).

(Noam Chomsky, the renowned linguist, has argued that language is the exclusive endowment of Homo sapiens).

Others argued that language arises from an array of more general purpose cognitive abilities.

Some linguists argued that language simply emerged as a byproduct of an increasingly sophisticated brain, but he rejected that idea.