Sentence examples for possession of language from inspiring English sources

The great masters of this technique (see also Mousterian industry) were the Neanderthals, whose possession of language has long been debated.

They note the word "almost" in the argument above and contend that humans, with their high intelligence and possession of language, and their tendency to live in small, tightly knit groups, might be exceptional.

Reasoning has often been regarded as a uniquely human faculty, one of the few factors, along with the possession of language, that distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom.

This qualitative difference is largely the result of our possession of language and, by virtue of language, an ability to have thoughts about thoughts and to imagine alternatives to our current reality.

Every first-person narrator creates himself out of words, but this process is particularly acute in Bruno's case, since possession of language is the only thing that qualifies him for human consideration, especially after acts of violence for which he would otherwise be put down.

Elsewhere (Gontier 2008), I have already argued that the possession of language in a way enabled anybody who had it not only to find the order present in the world but also to create it.

Possession of oral language makes it possible to transmit information over time and space, to form social bonds, and to contemplate future as well as past events.

It is possible that the potential for consciousness does, in fact, depend on the capacity to give a verbal report, or on some important correlate of that ability for example, possession of a language of thought, or the potential to code mental contents in propositionally-structured form.

Her current research focusses on rule-following, concept-possession, knowledge of language, and the normativity of meaning.

When the government first prohibited the "printing, publication, sale, issue, circulation or possession" of Malay-language Bibles in 1981, it said the books were "prejudicial to the national interest and security" of the country.

For a majority of groups the basis for collective identity is possession of a distinctive language or dialect.