Sentence examples for observed language from inspiring English sources
In addition, it was observed, language learners acquire the ability to recognize the meaningfulness, as well as the grammaticality, of an infinite number of sentences.
As Baldwin once observed, language is both "a political instrument, means, and proof of power," and "the most vivid and crucial key to identity: it reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger, public, or communal identity".
However, as one respondent observed, language could be very fluid.
Another hypothetical scenario is that the observed language benefits are driven in whole or in part by enhanced effects of the 23 mg/day dose on regions of the brain controlling other cognitive processes, such as attention and memory.
In the L2 familiarity study we observed language transfer effects that resulted in English cognates receiving higher familiarity ratings than noncognates, which is likely due to the effect of cross-linguistic similarity.
Another hypothesis is that the observed language benefits could be driven by enhanced effects of the 23 mg/day dose on regions of the brain controlling other cognitive processes, such as attention and memory.
If I pull my linguist's hat firmly down over my ears, it enables me to observe language change objectively.
Marooned in shaky French, and living among French-speaking Americans, he observes, "Language is a house with a host of doors, and I am too often uninvited and without the keys".
Thus, observing language conflict in these circumstances indicates that blocking a language is not possible and therefore representations of both languages are automatically activated.
However, more compelling evidence that language conflict cannot be avoided would be to observe language conflict in tasks and context that require only one language so that bilinguals could potentially block the other language.
Is the state in which we observe languages today closer to what would be a dynamical attractor with statistically stationary properties or rather closer to a non-steady state slowly evolving in time?
