Sentence examples for understanding a language from inspiring English sources

In the last lectures I heard him give, Dummett criticized the natural idea, on which his attacks on objectivity had been based, that understanding a language is simply a matter of being able to use it correctly.

This seems to indicate that knowing what is said by a truth theory of the relevant kind is not, after all, sufficient for understanding a language.

Understanding a language is a matter of continually adjusting interpretative presuppositions (presuppositions that are often not explicit) in accord with the utterances to be interpreted.

An ELMo-equipped language engine won't be nearly as good as a human with years of experience parsing language, but even working knowledge of polysemy is hugely helpful in understanding a language.

At first, that might sound awkard, but the startup claims that 50% of all conversations are made up of approx. 100 words and at first knowing these 100 words is essential for understanding a language.

Knowledge by wont of the use of expressions and of concrete ideas is something everybody learns in the course of growing up speaking and understanding a language: "their 'logical geography' is taught by one's daily walks" (1945, 207).

From an outside perspective, understanding a spoken language versus a signed language seems like it might involve entirely different brain processes.

When I was growing up, middle-class kids like me rarely admitted to understanding a native language, let alone speaking it.

When you find yourself suddenly speaking and understanding a new language, it's that special kind of high-tech magic.

None of us are C-3PO!" But the work of understanding a new language is only a small part of what linguists actually do.

Also, we are interested in investigating if dolphins can perform more complex cognitive tasks without rest, like problem-solving or understanding an artificial language".