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An examination of the lexical structure of languages throws some light on the relations between various aspects of human conceptualization.
However, it refrained from any attempt to compare the structure of languages as a whole and arrive at generalizations about languages.
Nicholas Ostler does not adopt a narrowly linguistic approach - based on the structure of languages and their evolution - but instead looks at the history of languages, the reasons for their rise and, as a rule, also their fall.
Here it is to be understood as implying an appreciation of the diversity of functions fulfilled by language and a theoretical recognition that the structure of languages is in large part determined by their characteristic functions.
What is commonly referred to as mathematical linguistics comprises two areas of research: the study of the statistical structure of texts and the construction of mathematical models of the phonological and grammatical structure of languages.
Reid often appeals to the structure of languages as evidence for generalizations about human cognition, belief, and descriptive metaphysics.
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Syntax, basic to the structure of language, seemed be a uniquely human faculty.
They never got to learn the beauty and shape and structure of language".
Rich and complex language, with adjectives and subordinate clauses, helped them to learn the complex structure of language.
For example, it turns out that the high-pitched sing-song voice all adults use when talking to babies makes the sound structure of language particularly clear.
Mandelbrot, B. On the theory of word frequencies and on related Markovian models of discourse, in: R. Jakobson, Structure of Language and its Mathematical Aspects.
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