Together with a robust realism about linguistic universals and the peculiarly Mīmāṃsaka conviction that the Vedic texts are eternal, this epistemology was effectively deployed by Kumārila to show that a commitment to the uniquely authoritative status of the Vedas (and to the ritual practices enjoined thereby) was rationally held.
The novel is propelled by linguistic exuberance, robust, irreverent humour and self-parodic climaxes, as when Pop wins a few rand on the lottery and treats them to a fast-food banquet, or Lambert baits the neighbours at a barbecue, only to crash, like a peeping Tom, through their roof.
This translation of the OHS into Danish used a robust methodology that maximised linguistic accuracy and cross-cultural adaptation.
Moreover, he argues that different forms of irrealism about linguistic content presuppose robust semantic notions, such as realist conceptions of truth and reference.
This suggests that beyond the apparent diversity found between languages, the impact of word ordering stands as a robust universal statistical feature across linguistic families.
However, when a measure of the relative entropy is used, which quantifies the impact of word patterns in the statistical structure of languages, a robust universal value emerges across linguistic families.
Besides, this cross-linguistic observation also provides robust support for not separating the use of Close to Expectation from the use of Continuation for the characterization of hai.
This at a time when a growing body of evidence underlines the value of early intervention to develop cognitive, linguistic and social skills and ensure robust physical and emotional health.
This informal methodology has worked well because acceptability judgments of linguistic phenomena tend to be strikingly robust, even at very small sample sizes (for a large-scale quantitative evaluation, see Sprouse & Almeida, 2010).
Despite the need for robust evidence of the appropriateness of measures, transition from linguistic to psychometric validation is poorly documented or evidenced.
