Sentence examples for definition of language from inspiring English sources
This is what is meant by the term arbitrary in the second definition of language quoted at the beginning of this article.
In "Sex on Six Legs," the biologist Marlene Zuk argues that insects — because they are both unlike us and, in surprising ways, like us — provide excellent fodder for studying the relative value of inheritance versus environment, the evolution of personality, the definition of language and the downside of growing bigger brains.
The theory of meaning that underpins this view of the artwork's structure thus seems to anticipate a Saussurean definition of language.
The exact number of known living languages varies from 6,000 to 7,000, depending on the precision of one's definition of "language", and in particular, on how one defines the distinction between languages and dialects.
This is because human language is modality-independent. Depending on philosophical perspectives regarding the definition of language and meaning, when used as a general concept, "language" may refer to the cognitive ability to learn and use systems of complex communication, or to describe the set of rules that makes up these systems, or the set of utterances that can be produced from those rules.
Certain assumptions may affect the choice of linkage method, including the definition of language impairment itself, which could lead to differences in the loci identified.
By way of contrast, such transformational grammars are also commonly used to provide formal definitions of language are commonly used in formal logic, in formal theories of grammar, and in applied computational linguistics.
The books helped prove that sign language met the definition of a language.
The Code's definition of "offensive language" includes: Curse words.
Because the language mix of LEP peers has not been studied before, we consider different definitions of languages spoken.
The Web Ontology Language allows to classify the concepts retrieved from gbXML and, due to the formal definition of the language, also reasoning on the data becomes possible.
