Sentence examples for linguistic criterion from inspiring English sources

The most widely used linguistic criterion of existence is due to Quine, who coined the slogan "To be is to be the value of a variable".

Mutual intelligibility is the linguistic criterion used to distinguish languages from dialects.

Non-alarmist and non-patronising language is a linguistic criterion of EBHI [ 12].

The fact some dialects and accents are seen to be more prestigious than others is more a reflection of judgements based on social, rather than linguistic, criteria.

The history of their geographic dispersion is based almost entirely on linguistic criteria, since historical knowledge is recent and archaeological finds are scanty and interpreted variously.

Owing to their mobility, their wide distribution across the Southeast Asian archipelago, and their inconsistent categorization both within and across political boundaries, it has been difficult to obtain a precise population figure for the Sama peoples; early 21st-century estimates were typically between 500,000 and 950,000, based on various social and linguistic criteria.

In 2005 the local government, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (RAS), introduced a standard version of Sardinian (Limba Sarda Comuna), but, as it was not based on clear-cut linguistic criteria, it has not been acknowledged by native speakers or local administrations.

Over the years since Grierson first proposed his scheme, it has appeared increasingly questionable, both as a consequence of his own somewhat arbitrary selection of linguistic criteria to distinguish between related local varieties of Indo-Aryan speech and as a result of increasingly sharp disagreements over the classification of languages and dialects in the region.

The related weights of the OWA operator are determined according to designer's linguistic criteria on comfort and garment style.

The judgments are made against four equally weighted linguistic criteria that are communicatively oriented, as shown in Table 1.

Later, the automatic parameters can be manually corrected [16], in order to reduce inevitable misdetections and enforce linguistic criteria.