Sentence examples for state of linguistic from inspiring English sources

As a result, the country is in a state of linguistic confusion.

The arrival of what is now just called "digital" — an all-purpose noun and an adjective modifying everything — has thrown the movie world into a state of linguistic confusion that mirrors the general sense of disarray and existential doubt.

This is compatible with Schmidt & Frota's noticing and noticing-the-gap hypotheses (1986) which states that in order for input to become intake, learners are required to go to the target features of the input and make comparisons between their current state of linguistic competence (in their output) and the target language (input).

As such, idiosyncrasy becomes a problem for a non-nativist only on the assumption that different children's states of linguistic knowledge differ from one another less than one would expect given the differences in their experiences.

The irony lies in that, if Halliday (1993) is right, those individuals who are eventually finally able to master this art in adulthood will need to learn to silence their newly-attained mastery of language abstraction when participating in informal contexts before they can ultimately reach the state of full linguistic maturity.

State-of-affairs are non-linguistic formal objects that come in various stages of complexity (see Gawron & Peters 1990 for a brief overview, Devlin 1991, 2006 for a more detailed exposition, and Ginzburg & Sag 2000 for a system based on a richer ontology).

Some authors have argued, for example, that the representational states of non-linguistic creatures are essentially perceptual and tied to the creature's possibilities for action and reaction in the immediate environment (see, for example, Dummett 1993 and Campbell 1994, although neither of these two authors puts the point in terms of nonconceptual content).

The creation of linguistic states has reinforced the use of certain standard dialects for communication within a state in official transactions, teaching, and on the radio.

We characterize the evolutionarily stable states of a population of linguistic agents in a game-theoretic setting.

The studies' conclusions emerge from state-of-the-art ancient DNA and linguistic analyses, but the debate over PIE's origins is likely to continue.

The details of the original poverty of the stimulus argument, its elaboration by Chomsky's followers, and the current state of the evidence for linguistic nativism are discussed in detail in the entry Innateness and Language.