Sentences with phrase «feature of human language»

This baby talk, or «motherese,» is widely considered to be a universal feature of human language, but now scientists report that a similar phenomenon might exist in other species — a finding that could help explain baby talk's evolution.

An analysis of 37 widely varying tongues finds that, despite the apparent great differences among them, they share what might be a universal feature of human language: All of them have evolved to make communication as efficient as possible.

It appears that many of the core features of human language have deep roots in the primate lineage.

Not exact matches

For Buber, the human person was reducible neither to the discrete features of individualism nor the collective ones of social aggregates, let alone the vagaries of language and discourse.

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.

Babies are born with the ability to learn and use language, a feature of human behavior that, like other behavioral capabilities, emerged from eons of biological evolution — a scientific explanation that author Tom Wolfe rejects in his new book, The Kingdom of Speech.

Bob Holmes's article on the human capacity for language (5 April, p 11) features the work of researchers Jennifer Culbertson...

The strategy used by infants should not be seen as a limitation for lexical learning, but rather as a feature of human memory that interacts with language learning mechanisms.

«Thus, analyzing the features of modern - day languages might give us new information about events in human history that left few other traces,» Creanza said.

Nevertheless, he stops short of concluding that it is a «universal» or «hard - wired» feature of language, rather than a strategy that humans have developed over time to make themselves better understood.

Linguists agree that all humans must share some cognitive or linguistic structures, but there's great debate over which features of language are universal — or at least, innately human.

Director James Schamus approaches the material with a fealty that at least surpasses prior Roth adaptations including 2003's The Human Stain (featuring Anthony Hopkins as the book's white - passing African - American protagonist) as well as earlier, tastefully neutered attempts to reflect the highly sexualized language of Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye, Columbus.

The imagery features the inchoate elements of the iconic language associated with Keith Haring to this day — pyramids, flying saucers, dogs and crawling babies are intermixed with wandering figures and human / animal / extraterrestrial activities.

CUE Art Foundation is pleased to announce Radical Plastic, a group exhibition featuring artists who employ formal visual languages to address more human contexts including the problematics of bodies and gender - based constructs.

In Pica's sculptures, she uses objects whose features are named for parts of the human body, such as the tongue of a shoe, the teeth of a saw, and the legs of a table, highlighting the bizarre anthropomorphizing language grafted onto common objects.

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways: by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figurative language and figures of speech.

When a huge volume of language is analysed, features and patterns can emerge that would be invisible to the casual human reader.