"We applied it to the Papuan languages, and found through structural comparison that different Papuan languages on the same island group do indeed seem to be related".
Nevertheless, the methods of historical linguistics, involving the precise and systematic comparison of word forms and word meanings (see also linguistics: Historical [diachronic] linguistics), have produced remarkable results in establishing language families on the same basis as Indo-European was established, in far less-favourable fields.
We applied the MMSE 6, 33, 34 followed by language tests on the same day.
Singlepoint analyses of 1149 children (606 males and 543 females) revealed patterns of association which were strikingly reminiscent of those observed in previous investigations of impaired language, centered on the same genetic markers and with a consistent direction of effect (rs2710102, P = 0.0239; rs759178, P = 0.0248).
On Saturday, the French period-music ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée, led by the conductor Emmanuelle Haïm, presents "Metamorphosis," a performance of Handel's Italian-language "Aci, Galatea e Polifemo," the predecessor to his better-known English-language opera on the same subject drawn from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
And while Bela Lugosi shot the 1931 "Dracula" during the day, Carlos Villarías played the title role for the Spanish-language version on the same sets each night.
Though they focused on language change, the same evolutionary concepts and tools can be applied to any system that involves variation, some form of inheritance, differential survival and reproduction, and time for the cycle to repeat itself over and over.
I am all for both Mandarin lessons and soccer practice, but before we worry about finding room for those, we need to work on finding ways to get more workers speaking the same language and playing on the same field.
In 1924 they abolished the caliphate, taking away the sultan's role as religious leader; it is no accident that the Kurdish language was outlawed on the same day.
Children learning a language somehow converge on the same grammar, as evidenced by their agreement about well-formedness, and by the distinctive types of errors they make and don't make in the course of learning.
