Sentence examples for linguistic units from inspiring English sources

Attempts have also been made to relate Afro-Asiatic to other African and European linguistic units, such as Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, or Basque.

Another distinguishing feature of stratificational grammar, in its later development at least, is its description of linguistic structure in terms of a network of relationships, rather than by means of a system of rules; linguistic units are said to be nothing more than points, or positions, in the relational network.

It is distinctive of languages that linguistic units possess meaning by convention, and linguistic meaning is very different from what is called natural meaning, exemplified in statements such as "Those clouds mean rain" and "The fall in pressure means the valve is malfunctioning".

The idea here is that premise combination corresponds to composition of strings or other linguistic units.

Before the child has any understanding of linguistic units, it undertakes a vast apprenticeship in their formative elements.

Three sorts of linguistic units are mentioned, all of them explained in terms of function, not structure.

Until the 15th century, Portuguese and Galician formed one single linguistic unit, Gallego-Portuguese.

Proto-Baltic, however, besides developing into an independent linguistic unit in the 2nd millennium bc, also began gradually to split.

She explained, "You can't make a slip of the tongue with a linguistic unit if you haven't learned that unit".

The basic linguistic unit of the sound system is called a phoneme; it is a minimal, contrastive sound unit that distinguishes one utterance from another.

The researchers believe that these differences suggest that children who cannot yet read can understand that a written word represents a single linguistic unit, unlike a drawing.