Thus the unit emphasised the functions of the language used by primary-school children, rather than going into detail about language learning from birth.
Further, we purposively searched targeted journals, including Functions of Language, Functional Linguistics, Languages in Contrast, Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Language Sciences, Language Typology, and Studies in Language.
Modern stylistics uses the tools of formal linguistic analysis coupled with the methods of literary criticism; its goal is to try to isolate characteristic uses and functions of language and rhetoric rather than advance normative or prescriptive rules and patterns.
This definition stresses the social functions of language and the fact that humans use it to express themselves and to manipulate objects in their environment.
The second area entails the functions of spoken language, which focus on the transactional and interactional uses of speech.
We smoothed and transformed the time series into continuous functions of time using the cubic spline functions built into the Matlab programming language (see Methods for details).
We used quantitative method to compare the results of ttperm function in the Category package of the R language using the method described in the method section.
RMA normalization was performed by the 'justRMA' function of Bioconductor Affy package in R program language using raw data (Affymatrix CEL file).
Participants commented on the use of lay language, for example, participant 15 described the language used as everyday language.
