Sentence examples for self-contained language from inspiring English sources

Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Michael Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language.

Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language.

In the ruminative third movement of the Second Quartet, especially as played here with such self-contained tension, the harmonic language -- Bartok's distinctive amalgam of ethnic Eastern European scale patterns and atonal explorations -- sounded eerily unhinged.

Even among those who accept that there is a reasonably self-contained and straightforward private language argument to be discussed, there has been fundamental and widespread disagreement over its details, its significance and even its intended conclusion, let alone over its soundness.

The earliest residents of the island, the Li peoples, had a language that was a self-contained branch in the Zhuang-Dong language family, indicating that ithad branched off early from the other groups within this language family.

Art has the power and range of a self contained language, one that works just like a written one but benefits from not being attached to a particular official language, nation or culture.

The self-contained device contains more than 3 million Wikipedia entries and was just updated to include 15 languages.

Ordinary language philosophy was charged with reducing philosophy to a self-contained game of words, thus preventing it from real engagement with the world of things.

The Little LISPer is self-contained: an interpreter for the language is developed using the tools of the book itself.

Linney's body language is prim, self-contained, only hinting at what lies beneath; a quality that she brings to her most famous roles.

"Arnold Schoenberg, who greatly admired Brahms, said that Brahms was the one who extended musical language as a self-contained art and that this was what modernists had to regain after the lavish excesses of Tchaikovsky and Wagner.