Sentence examples for language see below from inspiring English sources
Creoles differ from pidgins in that, as first languages, they are subject to the natural processes of change like any other language (see below Linguistic change); and, despite the deliberately simplified form of the original pidgin, in the course of generations creoles develop their own complexities.
Prior to clinical investigation, a questionnaire about expressive language (see below) was sent to the preschool teachers of all the participating children.
These findings indicate that there is a relationship between lexico-semantics and gesture but that this is not the only influence, because at times, the gesture augmented the semantic content of the spoken language – see below for discussion of how the two Hypotheses account for these findings.
It should be noted however that (B1) is a meta-architectural condition that needs to be satisfied by any particular grammar for Mentalese, just as an analogue for (B1) is a condition upon the specific grammar of all systematic languages (see below).
To prove a point about the non-natural character of language (see 3 below), he renamed one of his slaves 'Allamēn' (not a randomly chosen sound but a Greek conjunction favoured by logicians like Diodorus for introducing the minor premise of a syllogism, 'But now …').
A control group of 11 age- and gender-matched NH children with normal language development, as evaluated using the battery of oral language (evaluated with BILO battery including receptive and expressive language skills; see below for explanation), was also recruited for the study.
Background information (such as education and language skills, see below) was assessed at baseline.
Since about the mid-20th century the topics of communication and interpretation have been the purview of the philosophical and linguistic discipline of pragmatics; such investigations have been aimed at elucidating the rules and conventions that make communication possible and at describing the varied and complex uses to which language is put (see below Practical and expressive language).
For the purpose of screening participants with regard to their language proficiency in both languages (Russian, German) and their language background we used a bilingual picture naming task and a language background questionnaire (see below) in a 1st session lasting about 60 minutes.
All children in this sample were assessed for a number of reading- and language-related traits (see below) regardless of their language ability.
