However, whether the specific linguistic computations that make up these complex tasks are neurobiologically similar between the two types of languages remains unknown (particularly for language planning and production).
Cynthia Ozick's The Bear Boy may feature a range of linguistic fireworks, but that can't make up for a lack of plot, says Adam MAdamJones.
The language families (including language isolates) that make up the Mesoamerican linguistic area are Aztecan (Nahuan, a branch of Uto-Aztecan), Cuitlatec, Huave, Mayan, Mixe-Zoquean, Otomanguean, Tarascan, Tequistlatecan, Totonacan, and Xinkan.
The Hmong (called Miao in China) and Mien (called Yao in China) peoples of southeastern Yunnan make up a separate linguistic group; they are hill dwellers whose traditional shifting (slash-and-burn) method of clearing land for cultivation has been replaced by more sedentary farming practices.
VIDEO: Watch now Conversation around the low dinner table inside the family's wooden stilt home is carried on in Akha, one of dozens of tongues that make up the complex linguistic and ethnic quilt that is modern-day Laos.
The hand-wringing about America's supposed linguistic weakness is often accompanied by the claim that monolinguals make up a small worldwide minority.
The 25 Aboriginal languages still being passed to new generations make up one of the last and most diverse great hunter-gatherer linguistic groups left.
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.
Supervaluationists encourage the view that all vagueness is a matter of linguistic indecision: the reason why there are borderline cases is that we have not bothered to make up our minds.
The linguistic groups and subgroups of the area are difficult to classify with certitude, but the Grusi languages make up a subbranch of the Gur (Voltaic) branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
