Sentence examples for lexical distinction from inspiring English sources
Other languages, such as Malay, make a lexical distinction of age the primary one, with separate words for elder brother or sister and younger brother or sister.
For example, Thierry et al. (2009) provides evidence that an obligatory lexical distinction between light and dark blue affects Greek speakers' color perception in the left hemisphere only.
Vocabulary building with emphasis on common idiomatic expressions and troublesome lexical distinctions.
An overview of the heterogeneous array of form-meaning associations will provide further references to lexical distinctions.
Nor are they what was called the 'Whorf thesis' by Brown and Lenneberg (1954) which was concerned with the relation of obligatory lexical distinctions and thought.
Examples of relevant obligatory features would include lexical distinctions like the light vs. dark blue forced choice in Greek, or the forced choice between "in (fitting tightly)" vs. "in (fitting loosely)" in Korean.
The issue of the relation between obligatory lexical distinctions and thought is at the heart of what is now called 'the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis' or 'the Whorf Hypothesis' or 'Whorfianism'.
As will be clear in the next section, this lexical semantic distinction also bears grammatical consequences in Mandarin and it is significant in fine-tuning Mandarin near-synonyms.
A closer examination of the major works on the lexical semantic distinctions of EPs reveals that besides the two commonly recognized participant roles, Experiencer and Stimulus, another semantically distinct and non-decomposable role, Affector, is also prominent in emotional predication, as it profiles a higher degree of volitional impact.
In other words, the use of pitch to mark and process lexical-phonological distinctions in a language does not entail that the language be categorized as a tone language.
Most Nilo-Saharan languages are tonal; i.e., they use relative pitch on a syllable or word to mark lexical or grammatical distinctions.
