Sentence examples for phenomenon of language from inspiring English sources

An assumption important to the comparative method is the Neogrammarian principle that the laws governing sound change are regular and have no exceptions that cannot be accounted for by some other regular phenomenon of language.

Exhibiting a lively sense of humour and a talent for explaining difficult scientific concepts clearly, he argued that the phenomenon of language depended essentially on two distinct mental processes the memorization of words and the manipulation of them with grammatical rules.

Now the phenomenon of language relativity can be described more accurately as follows.

Third, the phenomenon of language relativity (in the technical sense discussed in §1) has led many philosophers, including Geach, to the view that ideology creates ontology.

(NB: assertion of the sort indicated here is of course just one linguistic practice among many; it does not in any way exhaust the phenomenon of language or its ontological contribution).

We are guided by Wittgenstein's critique of the abstraction of the meaning of words from "the spatial and temporal phenomenon of language"[ 55].

While scientists and conservationists agonize over the massive extinction of species currently taking place, many people ignore the phenomenon of languages becoming extinct.

We suggest that the phenomenon of language-induced motor resonance in the hand-M1 took place only after the lexical-semantic access to representations of hand-action verbs, and only when the task explicitly required a full processing of the motor information associated with a word.

The late co-occurrence of M1 activation, together with the absence of relationship between this activation and the linguistic performance (RTs and accuracy), critically contribute to this conclusion, against the view that the phenomenon of language-induced motor activity automatically occurs during the lexical and semantic stages of word recognition, and is causal to them.

All this changed in the early twentieth century, when linguists, psychologists, and philosophers began to look more closely at the phenomena of language learning and mastery.

Dan I. Slobin is interested in the phenomena of language acquisition as a window on the more general issue of the relation of language to cognition and culture.