Sentence examples similar to linguistic instinct from inspiring English sources
There are no linguistic "instincts" to guide you on the path and the language's guardian angels rarely whisper into your ear; you are truly on your own.
It's here that Maupin catches his stride as a writer, displaying in great furls of prose both his instinct for comedy and his linguistic verve.
More intriguingly, a linguistic view of drawing might also explain our behaviour today – including our instinct for doodling in the margins.
Because Pullman is an admirer of "The Language Instinct," the book by the evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker, I suggested that, if linguistic grammar is hardwired, perhaps a grammar of narrative is, too.
In his book "The Language Instinct," Steven Pinker takes the same road as Deutscher: dramatically debunking a claim Whorf never made (linguistic determinism) then proceeding to agree with the claim Whorf did make (influence).
Linguistic ties matter too.
Parameters that are quintessentially linguistic?
PITY the linguistic purists.
They underpin linguistic imperialism.
Linguistic traps are everywhere.
