Sentence examples for language happen from inspiring English sources

The letters don't form words; they are simply the linguistic fragments that one needs in order to make language happen.

"This special mapping that babies seem to do with language happens in a social setting," Dr. Kuhl said.

On this theory, whatever language happened to be spoken in a region where a crop plant was domesticated expanded along with the farmers who spoke it.

James Tennant from PEN International blames lack of translations on "the deep-seated protectionism of an island people and a certain complacency coming from the fact that our language happens to be, for the time being, the global lingua franca".

(How do you describe a lake, or a tree, with math?) The speed of the message presents another problem: here on Earth, human language happens at a speed somewhere between birdsong and whalesong, so how fast should our message be, and on what scale should we be listening?

So the definition was to be in terms of syntax, set theory and the notions expressible in L, but not semantic notions like 'denote' or 'mean' (unless the object language happened to contain these notions).

Then my chance (or fated) meeting with language happened in a most unexpected way.

A significant shift in language happened when the printing press came to Europe.

The cinema language happened by experimentation - by people not knowing what to do.

'This special mapping that babies seem to do with language happens in a social setting,' Dr. Kuhl said.

A lot of our body language happens without us even knowing about it — it's subconscious.