Quality is beside the point — this type of content is about the quantity of language that surrounds us, and about how difficult it is to render meaning from such excesses.
For children learning more than one language, the quality and quantity of language experiences in each language affect the development of emergent literacy skills (Hoff et al., 2012; Leseman et al., 2007).
It is no more the matter of the quantity of language elements noticed in task performance rather it is the quality of how these language elements are noticed as the students engaged in the task.
The 30-million-word gap was first documented two decades ago and is widely cited, and Too Small to Fail is just one of the national efforts to close the gap, to increase the quantity of language that underprivileged preschoolers are exposed to through conversation, reading and song.
"We are focusing more on quality than quantity of languages," he said.
Instead of trying to teach a computer linguistic rules, Mercer and Brown downloaded enormous quantities of dual-language documents — including Canadian parliamentary records — and created code that analyzed the data and detected patterns, enabling predictions of probable translations.
Although in linguistics the combinatorial properties of language are usually emphasized as the most important aspect of human language, the sheer quantity of words and stored meaningful forms immanent to human languages already sets them apart from all known animal communication systems.
(Curiously, when I reread The Truant recently, I was struck by the quantity of scientific language Pratt employed. I guess it really wasn't much of departure, after all).
The Ministry of Health responded rapidly, assuaging the GMSC's fears with a startling quantity of conditional language: "We hoped that the draft circular made it clear that local health authorities were simply being invited to explore the possibility of obtaining the necessary co-operation in order to decide whether to have a local education scheme".
Restructuring classroom interaction with networked computers: effects on quantity and characteristics of language production.
As discussed in the next section, the category of quantity and the language of measuring occupied a central place in Lefèvre's approach to Aristotle's natural philosophy.
