Sentence examples for language structures from inspiring English sources

We conducted a statistical analysis of >2,000 languages using a combination of demographic sources and the World Atlas of Language Structures— a database of structural language properties.

Grammatical information was obtained from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) [32] a database of structural properties of language compiled from descriptive materials such as reference grammars.

For Mr. Moser, these deep language structures operate on conscious and subconscious levels, showing enduring, patriarchal attitudes.

In language, for example, an American, Noam Chomsky, believes that there are innate language structures in the young individual, just as Piaget insists that there are thought structures.

Learners and teachers generally favour practical solutions to language problems in the form of easy-to-follow guidelines and clear categories that serve to package language structures and utterances for easy consumption.

Among the notable exceptions was the work of J.G. Christaller of the Basel Mission, whose grammar (1875) of the Asante (Ashanti) and Fante (Fanti) languages shows exceptional insight into language structures.

(1) Language structure is emergent and, therefore, structural regularity and variation arises from more frequent ways of using language.

Five years after he arrived at Gallaudet, Dr. Stokoe published the groundbreaking "Sign Language Structure".

Readers will gain a deeper understanding of language structure and language change from the books of Pinker and McWhorter.

Finally, systems of symbolic communication, particularly language, structure the interactions between the members of any society.

"I was taught all the language cuing systems: graphophonics, sound-symbol relationships; semantic, the meaning system; syntactic, the language structure system.