Sentence examples for language capacities from inspiring English sources

And yet the HCF discussion of FLN seems to incline to the view that human language capacities have a unique human (though not uniquely linguistic) essence.

First, is there a double dissociation between language capacities and general cognitive capacities to be found in a comparison of Williams syndrome and SLI?

A neo-Darwinian Essentialist like Pinker will accept that the language faculty involves recursion, but also will also hold (with Emergentists) that human language capacities originated, via natural selection, for the purpose of linguistic communication.

"It is clear that our human speech and language capacities involve many different genes, interacting in complex networks, so there will never be an explanation of our unique ability in terms of just a single molecule".

Joaquin Fuster of UCLA has advocated the position of the importance of the prefrontal cortex in humans, along with the areas of Wernicke and Brocha, as being of particular importance to the development of human language capacities neuro-anatomically necessary for the emergence of higher-order consciousness in humans.

There are two competing theoretical frameworks regarding the neural underpinnings of language capacities in the human brain.

From there it has become an easy step to watching European or Latin American TV series regardless of language capacity.

In addition, the department has improved and expanded efforts to upgrade language capacity, especially Arabic, among American employees, including diplomatic security agents.

Language capacity may be built into the human brain, he said, just as the capacity for song is built into the bird's brain or the capacity to dance in meaningful patterns into the bee's.

The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that prewar American intelligence about Iraq had been hampered by significant shortcomings, including what he called the C.I.A.'s unsatisfactory response to Congressional directives to improve its foreign language capacity.

In evolutionary terms: if there were, long ago, two variants of language capacity in protohumans, one in which words had only a single, literal meaning (which is the way, for example, that some autistic people understand language) and another in which meaning was multiple and malleable, the second is the variant that got selected.