Sentence examples for familiar linguistic from inspiring English sources

Much of the early history of academic linguistics was spent reconstructing European "proto-languages", our best guesses at earlier forms of familiar linguistic groups.

Not just the way he sounded - and we run into familiar linguistic shortcomings quite early on, when that sound is described as "large and dry, slightly undercooked" - but the evolution of what jazzers used to refer to as his "concept".

Such accounts often take the form of assimilating recalcitrant ordinary utterances to some familiar linguistic phenomenon that is known to be potentially misleading.

A familiar visual and linguistic idiom has developed by which novelists and film-makers address the subject of slavery.

Consequently, writing cannot ordinarily be read by someone not familiar with the linguistic structure underlying the oral form of the language.

In addition to military security forces, thousands of military civil affairs specialists, familiar with the linguistic and cultural differences within Iraq, would probably be deployed throughout the country, officials said.

Decision makers should be given flexibility in expressing their judgments, because they are familiar with the linguistic variables applied to words and sentences in the description of the degree of value.

Research (Raichle, 1998; McCrone, 1999) has shown that once the brain is familiar with a linguistic task, it is able to bypass the processing route that was used to learn it (Wray & Perkins, 2000).

Such loneliness or stress is derived from not only the lack of familiar cultural and linguistic environments, but also the missing presence of familiar friends and social networks (Fischer 2012; McClure 2007; Sawir et al. 2008; Zhao et al. 2008; Ip et al. 2009).

A familiar assumption in much linguistic semantics is that meanings are to be identified conceptually as, or as subparts of, the conceptual representations deployed in general cognitive processes.

An American abroad can feel like a prisoner in a linguistic funhouse, with familiar words disfigured by foreign accents and convoluted grammar and half-felt cultural references.