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.
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.
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.
This is the orthodox explanation of linguistic systematicity.
Theories consider, amongst other factors, motor speech difficulties and linguistic or phonological problems as explanations for the phenomenon of stammering.
38, 39 The Montréal d'Evaluation de la Communication is a battery comprised of the following tests: Metaphors (explanation and alternatives), Direct Speech Acts and Indirect Speech Acts (explanation and alternatives), Linguistic and Emotional Prosody, and Narrative Discourse (partial retelling, total retelling, and full text comprehension).
27, 28 Metaphors (explanation and alternatives), Direct Speech Acts (DSA), and Indirect Speech Acts (ISA; explanation and alternatives), Linguistic and Emotional Prosody, and Narrative Discourse (partial retelling, total retelling, and full-text comprehension) make up the MEC.
