The more interesting question is: how well is technology suited to MFL? Well, one of the fundamentals of language learning is real communication and new technologies can certainly facilitate this essential aspect through, for example, videoconferencing and blogging.
Among his later works are Preliminaries to Speech Analysis (1952), a pioneering work in the distinctive feature analysis of speech sounds, written in collaboration with C. Gunnar, M. Fant, and Morris Halle, and Fundamentals of Language (1956; rev. ed. 1971), also with Halle.
If K is a set of constants and predicate letters, then we give the fundamentals of a language L1K= built on this set of non-logical terminology.
I glanced over at Quijada, who seemed to be amazed at how well the presenters grasped the fundamentals of his language, and yet increasingly flustered by their weirdness.
That's what moves the needle, not just creating yet another online, distance learning platform for well-educated, technically-proficient non-minorities to brush up on the fundamentals of natural language processing — or whatever it may be.
But amidst all this flux the special relationship will remain strong if we are watchful, stable and secure, because it is based not so much on the passing phases of economics and wealth creation but on the fundamentals of culture, language, political philosophy and public morale.
Each course covers the fundamentals of each language you are trying to learn, and there are quizzes and challenges scattered across the way to earning that final completion badge.
But reading over the case, one gets the sense that there's a fundamental lack of language to describe what's at stake.
There was also in Austin's approach something of the program of Russell and the early Wittgenstein for laying bare the fundamental structure of language.
This is not a quirk of English, but a fundamental feature of language: grammar is a bit weird, in every language, including German's sexless girls and Spanish's manly bridges.
I try to explain why in the race to ascribe to our genes all the fundamental aspects of language and thought, the immense power of culture and nurture has been grossly underestimated.
