Sentence examples for holds that language from inspiring English sources

Further, Sikhism holds that language is limited.

The first, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, holds that language determines what humans are capable of thinking.

Along the way he also touches on what the Vikings took away from our grammar, takes a skeptical look at the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (which holds that language affects thought patterns) and raises the question as to whether the ancient Phoenicians may have had more of a hand in our language than is currently thought.

The latter belief, inspired by Wittgenstein, holds that language itself only has meaning in specific practical contexts, and thus that religious language was not aiming to express truths about the world which could be subjected to objective philosophical scrutiny.

The simulationist view holds that language understanding is achieved via mental simulation of its content by activating traces of previous perceptual and motor experiences in the perceiver's sensorimotor system [10] [12].

Western-Malayo-Polynesian used to be considered one of the major subsets of Austronesian, however recent opinion holds that these languages actually form a number of primary branches within Malayo-Polynesian [20].

A liberal account of this perceptual difference holds that perceiving speech in a language you know may involve hearing sounds as meaningful or auditorily representing them as having semantic properties (see, e.g., Siegel 2006, Bayne 2009; see also Azzouni 2013).

Instead, he holds that every human language is really a failed and garbled translation of a divine language that speaks in things: "It is the translation of the language of things into that of man".

Zipf's law was developed to describe the proportion of word usage within human language; it holds that within a natural language, the frequency of occurrence of a word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table [16], [17].

Ample evidence does exist of early cultures in the Yellow River Valley, where legend holds that the Chinese language and imperial system took form under a mythical Yellow Emperor 5,000 years ago.

In contrast, the view most commonly held by Prakrit grammarians holds that the Prakrit languages are vernaculars that arose from Sanskrit.