Each child is exposed to an idiosyncratic sample of the language (their primary linguistic data).
If equation (1) were used as an approximation in place of the exact equation (6), the probabilities p(k) would have to be estimated separately from some sample of the language.
In this view, it is hoped that an enhanced awareness of formulaicity will foster independent learning because language learners will be more inclined to notice formulaic sequences in the samples of target language they engage with outside the language classroom.
It was observed in this sample that the language of NRE-SEs were quite prone towards "endorsing some person, group, concept or event or highlighting their positive entailments", as the definition of 'optimism' goes in the DICTION software.
[rain]." What Riviere's book points to is the idea of the poet as d.j., weaving together samples of preëxisting language into something unique.
In the current study, two of the language groups had sample sizes of approximately 100, thus suggesting that moderate or mild DIF might have not been detected among these groups.
This is acknowledged as a limitation of this study and thus there is a need to conduct further studies with larger samples of former foreign language teachers to strengthen the reliability of this finding.
(Click here for an audio sample of the extinct !Ora language).
Against all expectations, Davis coaxes idiosyncrasies of personality and society from a dry subject, but ultimately the writer's intelligence and expertise are more memorable than the character studies conducted through laboratory samples of language.
The compilation of a real corpus must be done in an objective way to extract samples of language used in an everyday context and with the minimum interference.
