Politics is fertile ground for this sort of linguistic shape-shifting.
Culture and context in infants' linguistic environment shape their vocabulary development.
Quantitative analysis of 8 spheres of business activity and company names has enabled us to draw clear conclusions about the process of shaping the linguistic landscape of an emerging global city.
A number of socio-cultural, economic and political factors shaping the linguistic landscape of an emerging global city accounts for the specificity of using English elements in the multilingual system.
Further, insofar as they reconfigure objects and occurrences as agents and actions, ghost stories provide unique insights into the cognitive, linguistic, and interactional processes shaping discourse anaphora in narrative contexts.
The strong positive partial correlation between genetic and linguistic variation shown by the Mantel test (see Additional file 14) suggests that the same past population processes have shaped linguistic as well as genetic divergence between Sakha and the Kamchatka-Chukotka region.
Considering unmistakable demographic trends in the US, it is clear that racial, ethnic and linguistic diversity will shape our future society.
This result, which is not explained by more recent demographic history, local language diversity, or statistical non-independence within language families, points to parallel mechanisms shaping genetic and linguistic diversity and supports an African origin of modern human languages.
The shaping of a writing system to make it suitable for a wide range of cultural purposes required other developments besides the invention of a system of characters for representing linguistic form.
The linguistic divide shapes politics and has fueled fears that Belgium may eventually split.
Each time we apply some natural, empirically guided interpretation in practice, we participate in shaping evolving normative practices (both linguistic and behavioral practices).
