Eventually it was given the Latin name Morbus gallicus, as in Gaul, so the French were stuck holding the linguistic buck.
Nonetheless, a significant advantage of this approach is that we were able to use a within-subject design and the same stimulus identities across both delivery forms, thus controlling for individual variability and holding all linguistic properties of the stimuli constant, in the participants' native language.
The 17th-century British empiricist John Locke held that linguistic meaning is mental: words are used to encode and convey thoughts, or ideas.
(This idea is still found in modern, scientific theories of desire (McMahon 1973; Kavanagh et al., 2005; Andrade et al., 2009).) Aristotle also apparently held that linguistic meaning derives from imagery, spoken words being but the symbols of the inner images (De Interpretatione 16a 5–9; De Anima 420b 29–32; see Modrak, 2001).
Whorf argued that it was exactly the reluctance to apply linguistic analysis of Maya languages that had held the decipherment back.
Although some scholars believe Raetian to hold an intermediate linguistic position between Celtic and Illyrian (a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken east of the Adriatic Sea), others now believe the language to be non-Indo-European.
On the topic of ambiguity, Diodorus held that no linguistic expression is ambiguous.
Cerebral laterality theory has long held that the linguistic processing systems within the left brain are specialized for rapid temporal sequencing and diminished persistence of the residual trace.
This position is compatible with holding that in special cases linguistic communities have instituted conventions for particular speech acts such as appointing and excommunicating.
Since Islam has failed to bind the country's many ethnic and linguistic minorities, the job of holding the country together has fallen to the Pakistani army.
