Sentence examples for block of language from inspiring English sources

Now that the Internet has destabilized the conventions of the printed page — in which a poem is a block of language so many inches wide and so many inches long, with pure white space surrounding letters and phrases set at fixed intervals — it is harder than ever to defend the translation of Dickinson's wild, dynamic graphic surfaces into such confines.

Possessing only the building blocks of language, driven solely by the stumbling urges of instinct, the two discover each other and conceive a daughter.

The five kinds of sounds are the "wail,'chuckck,'snortrt,'squeakand and 'tweet.' " Syntax, Mr. Kershenbaum said, is one of the building blocks of language.

Words and phrases are fundamental building blocks of language and culture, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life.

He believed that language was a virus that had achieved equilibrium with its human host, and that "blocks" of language and thought enforced convention, making it necessary to find techniques, from cut-ups to ­e-meters, to break the patterns.

For centuries, philosophers and psychologists have had us believe that such egocentric concepts of space such as "in front of", "behind", "left" or "right" are the universal building blocks of language and cognition.

In his book, The Symbolic Species, Terrance Deacon claims that ritual played a special role in human evolution, in particular, at the transition point where we began to acquire the building blocks of language.

A faulty connection between where the brain stores the auditory building blocks of language and where it processes them may be to blame for dyslexia, a new study suggests.

This is, in other words, how language looks at the end of structure and in the abscesses of coherence: analogic starbursts, sensuous ephemera, catholic collages, and mere glimpses--usually in the form of brief blocks of language a reader's mind "sticks upon" unwittingly--of semantic sense.

In cognitive terms, the main objects of interest of this study are the building blocks of language, i.e. words.

Although we included this and subtests from the BDAE (including the Cookie Theft description) as assessments of discourse level processing, the focus of our analysis in this study was on deficits at the single word processing level, as these are the building blocks of language and involve tasks that are sensitive to residual abilities even in severe cases (Henseler et al., 2014).