Sentence examples for linguistic assumption from inspiring English sources

This undermines any linguistic assumption of the substantiality of things and hence any delusory attachments to them.

There are a fair few linguistic and non-linguistic assumptions bound up in this romance, most of which are decidedly dodgy.

These approaches present linguistic and paralinguistic assumptions for initializing a pre-existing standard method.

This preliminary study thus both substantiates in a quantitative way linguistic phonological similarity assumptions and provides a reference from which to evaluate our results.

The strong version of CLT was grounded on the assumption that "linguistic knowledge is acquired through communication rather than direct instruction" (Ellis, et al. 2001a, p. 407).

The diaphonemic approach gets away from the assumption that linguistic communities are homogeneous, allows multiple varieties to be described in the same terms (something important for situations where people have abilities in more than one variety), and helps in ascertaining where speakers make diaphonic identifications as a result of similarities and differences between the varieties involved.

Building on archaeological and linguistic evidence, and the assumption that rice domestication was a single event, the currently preferred hypothesis places the origin of this language family in Southeast Asia [ 24- 26].

As these features illustrate, research on these languages calls into question many core assumptions of linguistic theory.

Here it is assumed that understanding linguistic expressions requires defeasible assumptions or "presumptions", for example presumptions concerning the rationality of the speaker (cf. Quine 1960; Davidson 1973, Scholz 2001, 149 159).

A familiar assumption in much linguistic semantics is that meanings are to be identified conceptually as, or as subparts of, the conceptual representations deployed in general cognitive processes.

The argument rests upon an empirical claim about the appropriate way to explain the behavior of non-linguistic and pre-linguistic creatures and in particular upon the assumption that it will not turn out to be possible to explain such behavior in non-psychological terms.