Sentence examples for cross-linguistic study from inspiring English sources

This seminar reviews and critiques current theoretical and experimental studies of first language acquisition, with a concentration on insights gained by cross-linguistic study of this area.

Finally, the body also takes center stage in Judit Simo's cross-linguistic study of body part metaphors in Hungarian and American writing about chess, an unusually thorough and detailed catalog of metaphors in which the human body serves as the source domain.

6. König and Seimund (2007) provide an extensive cross-linguistic study of the interaction of illocutionary force with grammatical mood.

The Development of Language Processing Strategies: A cross-linguistic study between Japanese and English.. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

However, these suggestions are not derived from a comparative study and therefore speculative and should be tested in a cross-linguistic study.

In a cross-linguistic study of American and Norwegian dinner-table conversation, Aukrust and Snow (1998) found that Americans were more likely to produce spontaneous explanations, whereas Norwegian families were more likely to produce spontaneous narratives.

Because recent cross-linguistic studies suggest that reading English is much harder to learn than reading other languages, an epidemiological study was conducted in French investigating the impact of socioeconomic background on early reading development.

This approach is not quite consistent with the usual practice of cross-linguistic studies in which pure cross-linguistic data is the main source from which a connecting pattern is deduced.

The composition may change in the future as Amazon's payment system expands; however, at present the lack of geographic diversity will likely affect the collection rates for languages other than English and Hindi, potentially limiting the benefits of AMT for cross-linguistic studies.

The granularity of the time series data is also critical in the analysis of data from developmental and cross-linguistic studies: In cases where no dishabituation effect is observed, establishing that some response to speech sounds is observed makes it less likely that the null result is a type I error.

We also sought to test whether such responses might be collected under passive conditions similar to those in electrophysiology research using mismatch negativity designs, which have proven useful in developmental and cross linguistic studies in which explicit discrimination and labelling may introduce confounds.