He proposes a neurologically plausible justification for Halliday's original insight of choice in conceptualizing language structure in terms of paradigm.
Earlier in 2006, Matthiessen (2006) attempted to conceptualize second language learning as the gradual expansion of a learner's registerial repertoire.
One can conceptualize that language tasks may engage all of these processes, particularly when domain-specific resources alone do not suffice, either in healthy participants performing difficult metalinguistic tasks (Hampshire et al., 2013) or when the habitual functioning of language networks have been impaired by pathology.
The risk of exclusive reliance on language expertise to conceptualize, design and administer language tests is that test scores may carry meanings that are misaligned with the values of non-language specialists, that is, those without language expertise but perhaps with expert knowledge in the domain of concern.
This absence of longitudinal relationships between earlier sentence repetition and later language skills, and the fact that sentence repetition correlated well with other measures of language ability, leads us to favor the view that sentence repetition is best conceptualized as a measure of language ability (as presented in Figure 2).
For example, across languages, time is conceptualized in terms of space as in "a look back" where "back" stands for the past, and social relationship is conceptualized in terms of physical distance, as in "a close friend" where closeness indicates intimacy.
Awareness in this context is generally conceptualized as the ability to manipulate language or reading units.
Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently.
Insular contribution to speech has been also conceptualized as a 'code translator' between higher-order aspects of language and the coordination of the actual vocalization (Eickhoff et al., 2009).
It takes on three main questions: (1) How is emotion conceptualized and lexicalized in a non-European language such as Mandarin?
We argue that our findings provide support for the view that sentence repetition is best seen as a reflection of an underlying unitary language construct rather than being conceptualized as a separate construct.
