Sentence examples for linguistic explanation from inspiring English sources

Verner's law, linguistic explanation of the apparent exceptions to Grimm's law, which first demonstrated the significant role that accent (stress) played in linguistic change in the Germanic languages.

The generally accepted linguistic explanation for the capital "I" is that it could not stand alone, uncapitalized, as a single letter, which allows for the possibility that early manuscripts and typography played a major role in shaping the national character of English-speaking countries.

It also appears to get right the "intentionality" of many cognitive states the object that the state is of or about even though cognitive neuroscience eschews its implicit linguistic explanation of this feature.

So that seems to contradict the linguistic explanations given by the Office and the fear remains that the mistake is not just a technical one, as they apparently want to make out.

Three different treatment groups received three different kinds of direct feedback: Direct feedback with written meta-linguistic explanation, direct feedback with oral meta-linguistic explanation, and direct feedback only.

This strongly suggests that the linguistic structure of explanations is a poor guide to the causal antecedents of behavior.

This is the orthodox explanation of linguistic systematicity.

In a chapter on speaking in tongues, for example, Professor Wacker begins with the early Pentecostals' own descriptions of what came to define their movement, and then moves on to contemporary linguistic, physiological and cultural explanations.

In short: if languages have a common ancestor, then common descent from originally arbitrary linguistic conventions is a possible explanation of linguistic universals, including the 'odd' or 'arbitrary' ones that don't seem to have any real functional significance.

Indeed, the latter has formulated his knowledge in a linguistic form which provides an explanation to give an appropriate primary diagnosis.

1. Force-talk is an ubiquitous but ill-defined linguistic element of causal evolutionary explanation in biology textbooks, journal articles, and university lectures.