Sentence examples for property of language from inspiring English sources
In a sense what Dr. Everett has taken from the Pirahã isn't gold or rare medicinal plants but recursion, a property of language that allows speakers to embed phrases within phrases — for example, "The professor said Everett said Chomsky is wrong" — infinitely.
He claimed that this "Law of Abbreviation" is a universal structural property of language.
Our results and theoretical analysis suggest that ambiguity is a functional property of language that allows for greater communicative efficiency.
Life is a strongly emergent property of genes, genetic code and nucleic/amino acids, as is culture a strongly emergent property of language and writing systems.
Some drawbacks were pointed out that the study of nasalance score should be conducted according to the property of language, gender, age difference along with oral and nasal cavity [12].
Language composability is a property of language descriptions, which can be further classified into informal (language syntax and semantics are hard-coded in compiler/interpreter) and formal language descriptions (syntax and semantics are formally specified with one of several formal methods for language definition).
The new work is a "major advance" because "it shows that DLM is a property of languages in general," says David Temperley, a cognitive scientist at the University of Rochester (U of R) in New York.
Infinitude, on his view is an unimportant side consequence of setting up a sentence-generating grammar in an uncluttered and maximally elegant way, not a discovered property of languages (see Pullum and Scholz 2010 for further discussion).
He was influenced by Paul Valéry and Juan Ramón Jiménez, who sought "pure poetry," emphasizing the musical properties of language over narrative and didactic motives.
But Dr. Everett, who had been publishing quietly on the Pirahã for two decades, announced in his 2005 paper that their language lacked recursion, along with color terms, number terms, and other common properties of language.
Bloodied and broken, Jack is still recognizable as Bruen's boy, a wounded street poet who believes in the redemptive properties of language ("My life and certainly my sanity had fled to reading through a thousand dark days," he tells us in a moment of lyric sobriety), but a man so consumed with guilt that he keeps robbing himself of the power of speech.
