adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
linguistic diversity (= having many different languages )
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The islands are well-known for their linguistic diversity.
technical/linguistic/managerial etc competence
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There are many careers that require a high degree of linguistic competence.
verbal/linguistic ability (= language skills )
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The test is intended to measure the children's linguistic ability.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
purely
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In some cases the significance of the documents goes far beyond their purely linguistic importance.
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So that the fabula, such as it is in this tale, is the product of certain purely linguistic devices.
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There is no purely linguistic way of generally marking the intended use.
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Thus it may be that children are not accustomed to relying on purely linguistic cues to the deductive mode.
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In purely linguistic terms, there are two reasons for this difference between Belfast and certain other studies.
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abilities
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In order to handle deductive mode explanations, children require various cognitive and linguistic abilities .
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It argues that they are deployed to reflect the developing cognitive and linguistic abilities of the novel's characters.
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But Donaldson's results extend these previous findings by showing that young children also have considerable linguistic abilities .
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Let us now look in detail at the linguistic abilities required to handle intentional mode explanations.
ability
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Alternatively, the discrepancies might be due to characteristics of the tasks used to assess the different types of linguistic ability .
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Whether we get linguistic ability from our genes, or by imitating others or just from general intelligence is not known for sure.
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Another source of variation comes from the interaction of the test items with the child's linguistic ability .
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This test is concerned with a specific aspect of linguistic ability and does not provide either standardised or age equivalent scores.
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Thus young children have both the cognitive and the linguistic ability to explain actions in terms of intentions.
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For selective pressures for linguistic ability could easily reverse in ontogeny the order I maintain would be needed in phylogeny.
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The need for a pragmatic component in an integrated theory of linguistic ability can be argued for in various ways.
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Thus, it is assumed that a test of linguistic ability actually measures language as opposed to some other characteristic.
analysis
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For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one.
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Whatever the answers to the previous questions, are they equally applicable to every level of linguistic analysis ?
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Dispersed through the above discussion are also elements from a kind of linguistic analysis which transcends the traditional syntactic and semantic processing.
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And this is where linguistic analysis can be of assistance.
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There are other conceptual similarities between network analysis and linguistic analysis.
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Moreover, the linguistic analysis undertaken during the comparison provided concrete support for these observations.
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This part is also characterised by minimal linguistic analysis and a tendency for barren description rather than interpretation.
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Graham Trengove is similarly concerned with the pedagogic applications of the linguistic analysis of literature.
behaviour
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As well as such differences in educational attainment, there are differences in the characteristic linguistic behaviour of various groups.
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This is an example of folklinguistics regulating real linguistic behaviour .
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The question which hung over this whole discussion, though, was how beliefs about linguistic behaviour relate to the observable facts.
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These beliefs not only explain to the ordinary language-user things she might have observed for herself, they also regulate linguistic behaviour .
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It will not just be a matter of noting what linguistic behaviour it provokes.
category
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Philosophy, if it is anything, is a linguistic activity which teaches us to be critical about linguistic categories .
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Genette goes on to suggest that this authorizes the use of linguistic categories in the analysis of narrative discourse.
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Todorov's analysis of the Decameron tales is based on a very rigorous and literal use of linguistic categories .
change
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The principles of learning theory provide a prima-facie explanation of the linguistic changes which occur during childhood.
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The data presented here suggest that social network structure is implicated in processes of linguistic change in at least two ways.
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This has implications, for example, for the study of linguistic change in progress.
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One fact that contradicts it immediately is that women are often in the vanguard of linguistic change towards the standard variety.
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Underlying all this there is a more general question that impinges very directly on the explanation for linguistic changes .
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The larger the area of a language through time, the greater the linguistic change that might be expected.
choice
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This chapter deals with the different linguistic choices that shapes women's magazine advertisements.
communication
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In linguistic communication terms have to be arranged in sequences.
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Taken together, the presumptions and strategies provide the basis for an account of successful linguistic communication .
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Assignment, however, has a secondary characteristic which from the point of view of linguistic communication becomes equally important.
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The basic idea is quite simple: linguistic communication is a kind of problem solving.
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Gellner stresses that nationalism becomes important when linguistic communication becomes vital for the State.
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It is not intended as an explanation of linguistic communication , a theory we might proceed to test.
community
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Corpus-Based Systems For a long time the use of probabilistic information in linguistic systems has been frowned upon by the linguistic community .
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Community change we may define as the transmission and ultimate sharing of changes among speakers in a linguistic community.
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We think he is a member of our linguistic community .
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The use of such techniques for language processing has traditionally been frowned upon by the linguistic community .
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Each linguistic community has preferred ways of organizing its various types of discourse.
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On the other hand, other linguistic communities may have more relaxed norms.
competence
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In order to construct an integrated theory of linguistic competence , it is essential to discover the logical ordering of components or levels.
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We are concerned, then, with more than simply linguistic competence .
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Fewer assumptions are made in such dictionaries about the linguistic competence of the user.
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Work should start from the pupils' own linguistic competence .
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This represents a very great pool of linguistic competence .
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Despite extensive research, how humans achieve their linguistic competence has still to be fully explained.
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Only if this latter requirement is met can we begin to talk of linguistic competence .
context
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Writing is practice in the use of linguistic contexts as independent of immediate reference.
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The implications of this fact for manipulability are great; linguistic context can be turned upside down more easily than real ones.
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She argues that writing provides' practice in using linguistic context as independent of immediate reference.
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We shall therefore seek to derive information about a word's meaning from its relations with actual and potential linguistic contexts .
data
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With such descriptions, actually occurring linguistic data , where they are adduced at all, serve to exemplify category types.
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Students will therefore need courses that will equip them for observing, collecting and analysing linguistic data .
description
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It is the job of stylistics to relate linguistic description to interpretation in a clear and helpful way.
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Tests which are not based upon adequate linguistic descriptions must be regarded as lacking in construct validity.
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Clearly, just what M-tense concepts are needed for linguistic description will differ from language to language.
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The interpretation of an utterance involves the integration of information across different levels of linguistic description and across time.
diversity
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Assemblies, dress requirements, school meals provision and links with parents may be insensitive to different cultural backgrounds and linguistic diversity .
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I have the greatest respect for linguistic diversity .
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Paradoxically, Diamond feels this loss of linguistic diversity may be our best hope.
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Although linguistic diversity was considered a positive asset, bilingualism in maintained schools was not supported.
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Literacy and education tend therefore to reduce linguistic diversity and to enhance major languages at the expense of minor ones.
evidence
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The argument must still confront the anthropological and linguistic evidence for intellectual development as well as capacity in different cultures.
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This theory is supported by archeological as well as linguistic evidence .
expression
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We use language to talk about the meanings of linguistic expressions as well as about things that are not meanings.
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I should stress again that I am here concerned with meanings qua posited objective thought-contents of linguistic expressions .
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This principle is concerned with the maintenance of distinctions between linguistic expressions .
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All we have is a difference in the referential relations between linguistic expressions and the world outside language.
feature
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As yet, however, no rigorous taxonomy of text types is available, let alone describable in terms of typical linguistic features .
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Especially in large urban areas, a particular linguistic feature of a regional dialect might well be influenced by social factors.
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How is it possible to list exhaustively all linguistic features that may be found in a text?
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What I am arguing here is that the meaning of a linguistic feature can not be determined outside its context.
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Thus, a regularity in discourse is a linguistic feature which occurs in a definable environment with a significant frequency.
form
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A description which deals with abstract types will present linguistic forms and their meanings as constituents of the conventional code.
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Girls are simply better at linguistic forms of learning, boys at mathematical and some spatial skills.
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The main point is that prose varies a great deal in the amount of aesthetic interest which attaches to linguistic form .
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He will attempt to describe the linguistic forms which occur in his data, relative to the environments in which they occur.
group
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The other linguistic groups are reluctant to accept the position of Hindi as primusinterpares.
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The Raj brought the different linguistic groups together under one administrative umbrella.
information
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These second generation systems employ much more linguistic information , particularly semantic, than their predecessors.
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If the trail through the trie has successfully found a word then the linguistic information for the word is found there.
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Integration Recognition can be improved by using additional linguistic information .
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The principal reason for this is the high degree of reliance a human places on linguistic information .
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Incorporation of some of the linguistic information that humans employ is necessary to improve text recognition systems.
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Machine-readable dictionaries can be used as a source of linguistic information .
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Sources of linguistic information required by a recognition system will also be investigated.
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That is significant because dyslexia is essentially an inability to deal with linguistic information in visual form.
knowledge
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In the short term this brute force approach appears to be the best method of incorporating linguistic knowledge into computers.
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In trying to summarise these findings, it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable.
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The second solution is to regard linguistic knowledge or competence as a characteristic of the individual child.
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Both deaf and hearing people do interpret stimuli presented for memory in terms of linguistic knowledge of both the task and the stimuli themselves.
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There needed to be an interaction between cultural adjustment and linguistic knowledge .
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Any linguistic knowledge the teacher can bring is a welcome bonus.
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Neither the three CILT-provided course outlines nor Nott's article refer explicitly to linguistic or applied linguistic knowledge .
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It meant a new way of looking at reading errors, seeing them as evidence of children's use of linguistic knowledge .
model
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Yet the design of the experiment is such that the use of alternative linguistic models is still possible.
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The real question in structuralist theory is how literally the linguistic model should be applied.
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What is needed is a different linguistic model .
phenomena
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The linguistic phenomena we see in the texts reflect not classical fusion of law but post-classical confusion of language.
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More often than not, to account for linguistic phenomena we require diverse kinds of information from different components of a grammar.
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Those interested in functional explanations of linguistic phenomena ought then to have a considerable interest in the systematics of face-to-face interaction.
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First, implicature stands as a paradigmatic example of the nature and power of pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena .
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That is to say, it may be possible to give powerful functionalist explanations of linguistic phenomena by reference to pragmatic principles.
sign
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The linguistic sign as type we can call the symbol.
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This is a pragmatic matter of achieving meaning by using linguistic signs as evidence.
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Whereas bees, of course, like frost, are not linguistic signs: they don't say what they're signs of.
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And just as indirect observation in general doesn't need linguistic signs , nor does the special case of communication.
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Eeyore's sigh is not a linguistic sign .
skill
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There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills.
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Recently, however, scholars have become aware that there are considerable difficulties in assessing Gregory's linguistic skills .
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In people who had achieved entirely normal linguistic skills , brain damage can reduce or even abolish such skills.
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All this requires imagination, patience, considerable linguistic skill , but above all a rigorous respect for the facts.
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According to Marx, the ability to understand humour in a foreign language is a mark of the highest linguistic skill .
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This supposedly reflects the different contexts in which they learn the linguistic skills - public debates versus private relationships.
structure
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Piaget does not believe that concepts take their origin from linguistic structures .
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Rather they derive from associated events in experience that antedate linguistic structure both phylogenetically and, in man, in individual development.
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Apart from this, its description of linguistic structures is not as exact and analytical as modern style studies tend to be.
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Hence Derrida's poststructuralism challenged the modernist and autonomous science of autonomous linguistic structures of Saussure and Barthes.
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But, as yet, few linguists have applied the insights from conversation analysis to functionalist studies of linguistic structure .
study
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Born in Geneva in 1857, he was introduced to linguistic studies at an early age by a philologist, Adolphe Pictet.
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The Jesuits have a tradition of linguistic study .
system
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Corpus-Based Systems For a long time the use of probabilistic information in linguistic systems has been frowned upon by the linguistic community.
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The symbolic meaning of a deictic term is its meaning as it functions within the linguistic system .
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The other kinds of socially deictic information, however, can be encoded just about anywhere in the linguistic system .
theory
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The assumed realism of linguistic theory is problematic in literary contexts.
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There remain a great many questions to answer for psychological and linguistic theories .
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There we shall be dealing not so much with direct applications of linguistic theory as with extensions or analogies of it.
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However, let's grant that the linguistic theory is true.
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This has, inpart, been a failure of linguistic theory at two levels: semantics and discourse.
unit
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The importance of Kittay's formulation lies in her wide definition of the type of linguistic unit that can be labelled metaphoric.
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They also, of course, govern linguistic units larger than words - idioms, phrases, and larger constructions.
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So we can assume that analysis of prior linguistic units has two effects on subsequent processing.
variable
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The variant realizations of a linguistic variable do not encode different referential meanings.
variation
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The result of this is that linguistic variation and change can appear to be unidimensional.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
verbal/linguistic gymnastics
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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linguistic skills
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Hearing difficulties can slow down a child's linguistic development.
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It is difficult to obtain accurate information on which to base an assessment of a child's linguistic abilities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Especially in large urban areas, a particular linguistic feature of a regional dialect might well be influenced by social factors.
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In such a system, visual and auditory linguistic signifiers are in changing, unstable correspondence with the concepts they stand for.
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The linguistic phenomena we see in the texts reflect not classical fusion of law but post-classical confusion of language.
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The linguistic sign as type we can call the symbol.
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The data presented here suggest that social network structure is implicated in processes of linguistic change in at least two ways.
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The second solution is to regard linguistic knowledge or competence as a characteristic of the individual child.
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They underline the right of migrant workers to express freely their ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic characteristics.
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Wright's system for cursive script recognition has efficient low-level processing but relies on a dictionary and higher level linguistic processing.