Sentence examples for universal constraint from inspiring English sources

Note that formal languages that are designed to satisfy language-bound compositionality may nonetheless violate cross-linguistic compositionality simply because their syntax or the meanings of their constituents violate some universal constraint on human languages.

This potentially universal constraint was proposed to account for the general observation that highly expressed proteins evolve quite slowly (Drummond et al. 2005).

This, according to Chomsky, is implied by the existence of universal constraints on syntactic structure, in which "the poverty of the stimulus" acts as a means of accounting for the spectacular blossoming of vocabulary and syntactic command around age 2 and for the restriction of language acquisition to a "sensitive period" ending before age 10.

The constraints can also be specified explicitly by Universal Constraints Description (UCD).

There are strong, universal constraints on how people organize their local knowledge of biological kinds.

His "pluralistic relativism" continues to emphasize that there are universal constraints on what could be a true morality.

His Church-Turing Thesis coupled with Godel's Incompleteness Theorems still has philosophers debating the existence of universal constraints around human knowledge.

Nonetheless, according to Wong, the universal constraints are sufficiently open-ended that there is more than one way to respect them.

In Chapter 3, they state clearly: There are strong, universal constraints on how people organize their local knowledge of biological kinds.

Optimality theory, introduced in the early 1990s, is a model of language in which the mapping between input and output is mediated by a constraint hierarchy, composed of a language-particular ranking of universal constraints.

However, for this reason, though it presupposes the considerations supporting the relativist dimension of his position (there is no single true morality), it argues from the non-relativist dimension (there are universal constraints any morality should accept, in particular, that one function of morality is to promote social co-operation).