Sentences with phrase «perhaps human languages»

Perhaps human languages alone simply aren't up to the task.

Not exact matches

Much of the effect can likely be explained by researchers unconsciously giving hints or suggestions to their human or animal subjects, perhaps in something as subtle as body language or tone of voice.

Let us begin with language, perhaps the most fundamental of all studies because of the fact that speech is so clearly a distinguishing feature of human beings within the whole created order and because it is so essential to the effective conduct of all human affairs, including every aspect of education.

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

«This article perhaps overreaches in its interpretations,» he says, because the subjects have grown up with language but «they have not grown up with stone tools» as early humans did.

In fact, it is a system years in the making, and perhaps the most impressive attempt ever to create a question - answering computer that understands the nuances of human language.

The results reveal important insights into the neural networks needed to understand speech, hinting that perhaps both humans and dogs may have relied on similar networks that were already in place before language evolved, and later adapted to process speech.

April 26, 2006 «Uniquely human» component of language found in gregarious birds Although linguists have argued that certain patterns of language organization are the exclusive province of humans — perhaps the only uniquely human component of language — researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego have discovered the same capacity to recognize such patterns and distinguish between them in Sturnus vulgaris, the common European starling.

Perhaps it's something like Pensato's paintings — animal and «human» personages anthropomorphized into the barest semblances of themselves, erased (to use Pensato's own language), and re-represented, brutally, in the grammar of «high» art, with the painterly strokes and complex surfaces of abstract expressionism.

They give a viewer pause — to ponder the boundaries of human fantasy, the degree to which nature is pristine, or perhaps how both our language for and concepts of nature are transformed by an intricate and inevitable interweaving with human technology.

«the art of making knots, which is the peak of both mental abstraction and manual work, could be seen as the human characteristic par excellence, just as much and perhaps even more than language...» Italo Calvino

Gatekeeper sculptures were perhaps representative of a human population reduced to base observations of the world around them, then these poems might be a key to their language.

Upshot: Currently, businesses agree on deals in prose (human language), perhaps capturing it in a legal contract, and then independently write their own computer code to automate the logic.