Sentence examples for constraints on language from inspiring English sources
Though the broadcast networks are still dominant, in recent years they have been envious of and a little irritated by HBO's success with free-wheeling shows like "The Sopranos" and "Sex in the City," which have few constraints on language and sex and are the darlings of critics.
In the other direction, neural networks can benefit the scientific study of language by providing infrastructure for modeling human sentence processing and for evaluating the necessity of particular innate constraints on language acquisition.
This is the view advocated by the multicomponent working memory model (Baddeley, 2000, 2012) which sees sentence repetition tasks as depending primarily upon individual differences in the efficiency of an episodic buffer (Alloway et al., 2004), which is believed to be a system that places constraints on language acquisition (Boyle et al., 2013).
It should be noted that because the present study, although not genetic itself, was conducted in the context of a twin design that required very large samples, there were significant constraints on language measures stemming from the impracticality of in-person testing of thousands of pairs of twins.
(Another example of an innate but non-language specific constraint on language learning derives from the structure of the mammalian auditory system; 'categorical perception,' and is relation to the acquisition of phonological knowledge is discussed below, §3.3.4 .. Another alternative is that the constraints might be learned, that is, derived from past experiences.
It turns out that there really is nothing holding us back after 50- there is no critical period for second-language learning, "no biologically determined constraint on language-learning capacity that emerges at a particular age, nor any maturational process which requires that older language learners function differently than younger language learners". .
What can be done to overcome the severe constraints on Korean language training in North America?
BBC Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer has defended his station against recent criticism that it panders too much to middle-class tastes, insisting that earlier constraints on using language such as "piss, bugger or shit" had now gone.
Explanations of such facts appeal to nonobvious grammatical structure, and constraints on natural language transformations.
She was bound by constraints of language: after her apprentice years in Greece, she would only sing in Italian on stage, though she included French music, most notably Carmen, in her recordings and recitals.
