Sentences with phrase «possible human language»

«We know that every child can learn every possible human language,» said Jesse Snedeker, a Harvard psychologist who studies the development of language in children.

If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili... We're designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language.

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To eliminate from human society generalized distastes and preferences» including those that engage ethnicity, religion, nation, language, and race» is neither possible nor desirable, although there is a style of liberalism that erroneously insists that it is both.

Christians have a language for that; they know that human beings are capable of the worst - possible atrocities.

The language of rights might be viewed as a developing grammar that makes possible a truly universal dialogue about our common human future.

While the Resurrection was a fact, attested to by those who experienced it in so far as it could be described in human language, it is not possible to say precisely what the nature of these experiences were.

Whitehead construes the various possible areas of research very broadly, listing physics, physiology, psychology, aesthetics, ethical beliefs, sociology, or in «languages conceived as storehouses of human experience» (PR 5/7).

And this task is a legitimate one, as certainly as the object of faith (particularly when it provides the foundations for all possible objects or, in religious language, when it creates them) still remains the object of faith and is the immediate and exclusive object of human activity.

First of all is the biological organism with its big brain, its upright posture, its hand and opposed thumb, its vocal organs making possible enormous variety in vocalization so that language and other symbols can develop to expand indefinitely the range of meaning, entering into human life.

Real human language and literature has possible nuances and flexibilities as well as limitations.

This known asymmetry has led researchers to investigate whether a similar left - hemispheric bias could be found in other animals, as a possible evolutionary precursor of human language.

If so, it should be possible to find clues about how human language evolved from grunts or gestures by observing the communication of our close primate relatives.

Now, a new study in mice shows how a gene, called FOXP2, implicated in a language disorder may have changed between humans and chimps to make learning to speak possible — or at least a little easier.

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.

In that case, aliens may have evolved to solve the problem of language in the same way that humans did, making interplanetary communication possible.

Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes «to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man.»

Just as humans learn a second language like it's nothing at all before they are 12, and find it more difficult later in life, it's great to start our furry friends off on the right foot where possible:) Thanks for your support of senior dogs - we love them too!

Thinking to all that is extraordinary, beautiful, and remarkable about humans, and to our gifts for language and technology and sociality, what is desirable and what is possible?

The activities and language used throughout the program have been carefully chosen to be as inclusive as possible of this human diversity.