Sentence examples for distribution of languages from inspiring English sources

The signature of these ancient superfamilies can be seen in the geographic distribution of languages, Dr. Renfrew said.

We found that the dependence of the linguistic diversity on the area after colonization displays a power law regime with a nontrivial exponent in very good agreement with the measured exponent associated with the actual distribution of languages on the Earth.

The study aims to analyze the distribution of languages, countries, institutes, journals, author keywords, authorship pattern and co-authorship relationships.

We also construct a synthetic dataset where we preserve the distribution of languages and the number of concepts, (N = 200748), but allow languages to co-occur at random.

This paper is the first to study the extent to which the distribution of languages spoken by LEP students affects the achievement of LEP and non-LEP students.

Contrastive studies are counted twice, provided none of the languages described is English) Fig. 8 Percentage distribution of languages described by regions (total number of languages = 38) Fig. 9 Number of languages described per phylum (Total number = 38).

However, there is still no scholarly consensus about the Altaic hypothesis; for critiques, see Georg et al. (1999) and Vovin (2005), among many others.1 Fig. 1 Distribution of language families in Northeast Asia ca. 1,800.

In addition to demonstrating which parts of the brain may subserve specific language tasks or computations, hemodynamic methods have also been used to demonstrate how the structure of the brain's language architecture and the distribution of language-related activation may change over time, as a function of linguistic exposure.

One of the remarkable properties of the human brain is the asymmetrical distribution of language function between the two hemispheres (Geschwind, 1970).

Due to the high proportion of English-speaking patients, we systematically selected every second patient (50%) from an English-speaking alphabetical sampling list, yielding a more equitable distribution of language groups for the analyses.

Other researchers conducting twin studies of SLI argued that in the majority of cases it is not a distinct disorder, but rather the extreme end of a normal distribution of language ability, likely to be influenced by multiple genetic and environmental influences of small effect (Plomin & Kovas 2005).