Sentence examples for blocks of language from inspiring English sources

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Some anthropologists claim that within the vocabularies of kinesics and proxemics are the virtual building blocks of spoken language; they postulate that primitive humans made various and ingenious inventions (including speech) as a result of their need to communicate with others in order to pool their intellectual and physical resources.

The OpCodes, being the building blocks of machine language, have been used for statically analyzing application behavior and detecting malware.

In the same way those of my generation were spurred to learn basic math concepts from desktop "edu-tainment" classics like Number Munchers, MindSnacks set out to leverage the mechanics (and popularity) of mobile gaming to teach anyone and everyone the fundamental building blocks of the language of their choice.

Words, the basic building blocks of human languages, are seldom found among other species.

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