(1) It is argued that exposure to a linguistic structure that induces the child to operate on that structure can lead to a reorganization of linguistic knowledge even though no direct feedback has been given as to its correct adult interpretation.
(2) Underperformance in reading, writing, and other linguistic skills as well as visuo-spatial excellence may result from these changes.
(3) The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language (Length--Complexity Index) and for underlying subskills (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities).
(4) Fundamental frequency (F0) values are reported for 14 children between the ages of 11 and 25 months, an age period characterized by changes in physiological and linguistic development.
(5) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(6) The search for the acoustic properties useful to the listener in extracting the linguistic message from a speech signal is often construed as the task of matching invariant physical properties to invariant phonological percepts; the discovery of the former will explain the latter.
(7) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
(8) Prior to undertaking the exploration of phenomena in a research study with people from different cultures, certain elements must be addressed in order to bridge cultural and linguistic differences.
(9) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
(10) The model is based on neural processes rather than linguistic or symbolic constructs.
(11) The literature suggests that cleft palate children and adults perform below their peers on both linguistic and nonlinguistic tasks.
(12) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(13) Rozanne Colchester , a linguist who worked on Italian airforce codes and was an MI6 agent after the war, said: "There were a great many love affairs going on about which we did not speak in those claustrophobic days of the war.
(14) Linguistic analysis shows that the information is written in a difficult style with a median readability index of 48.2.
(15) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
(16) The speech problems of our patients seemed to indicate higher level motor encoding problems of linguistic information rather than peripheral articulatory deficits.
(17) This diversity approximated that found when linguistically unrelated groups were compared.
(18) These results differ from those obtained previously with noncorresponding pairs of linguistic-nonlinguistic dimensions.
(19) "This research is not only an extremely complex and interesting study of songbirds, it also gives us a unique insight into how brain development may contribute to human linguistic capabilities," said Prof Tamas Szekely of the Biodiversity Lab at the University of Bath's department of biology and biochemistry.
(20) Strong relationships appear between linguistic and fine motor skills in an age group not previously investigated and at higher levels than reported in studies of infants and very young children.
Polyglot
Definition:
(a.) Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a polyglot lexicon, Bible.
(a.) Versed in, or speaking, many languages.
(n.) One who speaks several languages.
(n.) A book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hungary, now one of Europe’s keenest proponents of border protection, was less than a century ago part of a polyglot, multinational commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
(2) Mirror writing and reading in this polyglot individual affected only the sinistrad (Hebrew) writing and reading system, leaving the dextrad (Latin) system unimpaired.
(3) Outside on the pavement, a polyglot scrum of journalists waited impatiently for news.
(4) Two cases of aphasia in polyglot patients who experienced different symptoms in each of the languages they knew are reported.
(5) Polyglot Roman emperor Charles V declared: "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
(6) Clegg, something of a cosmopolitan polyglot, picked tracks from all over the world.
(7) In Rates Of Exchange, the imaginary Slakan language was largely invented over several years by the combined contributions of the polyglot participants of the council's annual Cambridge seminar of contemporary writing, of which Bradbury was the founder and, for many years, chairman.
(8) The issue of polylingualism and polyglotism reintroduces some general psychoanalytic hypotheses.
(9) It is argued in this comment that both language mixing (including utterance-level mixing) and spontaneous translation are also found in normal polyglots, and that they may not therefore always be reflecting language deficit in aphasics.
(10) Cerebral asymmetries for L1 (Italian), L2 (English), and L3 (French, German, Spanish, or Russian) were studied, by using a verbal-manual interference paradigm, in a group of Italian right-handed polyglot female students at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (SSLM-School for Interpreters and Translators) of the University of Trieste and in a control group of right-handed monolingual female students at the Medical School of the University of Trieste.
(11) Compared to the politicians who went before, including the raving Rudy Giuliani, the polyglot former model was a positively Evita-esque breath of fresh air.
(12) Perecman (1984) Brain and Language, 23, 43-63, proposes that language mixing (and especially utterance level mixing) in polyglot aphasics reflects a linguistic deficit and that spontaneous translation indicates a prelinguistic processing deficit.
(13) Reith was conservative and traditionalist in his own taste, but from its earliest days the BBC was a culturally polyglot organisation, a clash of aesthetic tones.
(14) This could explain why, in some polyglots, aphasia affects one of the known languages preferentially.
(15) These studies emphasize that overall incidence studies in a polyglot population can have very limited meaning, and that greater attention must be paid to the actual racial variations within a population.
(16) In subjects in whom the different known idioms were learned during early childhood, the anatomical representation of the languages is similar, which explains why, in this kind of polyglot, all the known languages can be equally affected by cerebral damage that causes aphasia.
(17) The 85-year-old polyglot does it all, and the Guardian has called him the "god of gravitas".
(18) The predominantly white working class has morphed into a more polyglot, multi-ethnic working-class community with its fair share of asylum seekers and refugees, but it is the ethos that has changed more.
(19) The upper classes will presumably continue to cultivate languages because elites know how to reproduce themselves (the present cabinet is the most polyglot in recent history).
(20) The authors discuss the problem and analyze the available literature in an attempt to formulate a pathogenetic hypothesis of the different involvement of the known idioms sometimes observed in aphasic polyglots.