Chomsky, taking another tack, has suggested that language is a 'spandrel,' a byproduct of other non-linguistically directed selective processes, such as "the increase in brain size and complexity" (1982 23).
In the local community, tuition appears to be booming - the catchment area is culturally and linguistically diverse - and parents' high aspirations are being directed towards the new agencies which are sprouting up.
A sluggish, unilluminating production, directed by Sir Peter Hall, of perhaps Shakespeare's most linguistically sophisticated play and one of his most bitterly satirical.
As members of the species Homo sapiens, each human exhibits a very special "directed movement" skill: that of so directing the musculature of their six speech organs that they can produce patterned arrangements of arbitrary sounds to "linguistically represent" their environment.
Manchester Royal Exchange's Sarah Frankcom is directing The Skriker, a play certainly red in tooth and claw; Peake plays the title character, a shapeshifting spirit speaking in linguistically cartwheeling rhymes, who lures two teen mothers into a macabre, musical underworld.
As sometimes no direct word equivalent exists in a target language (either linguistically or culturally), an appropriate translation was put forward, discussed with the developer and implemented in the translations when they were found acceptable.
An English, Mandarin and Cantonese speaker, Ng says a certain finesse is required in dealing with Chinese management teams, which culturally and linguistically tend toward innuendo instead of direct talk.
At that point, the linguistically talented Scott speaks to the officers in Hungarian.
Person-to-person, Musk's vision would enable direct "uncompressed" communication of concepts between people, instead of having to effectively "compress" your original thought by translating it into language, and then having the other party "decompress" the package you send them linguistically, which is always a lossy process.
The contextual parameters are part of that story: as Firth reminded us, contextual categories are theoretical constructs and they bear no direct relation to items of linguistically non-construable realia.
Regardless of direct or indirect study benefits, it is important to develop linguistically and culturally meaningful approaches to informed consent to ensure that participants know they are involved in a genetic research project and not undergoing tests or procedures for clinical care.
