primary locus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandlocus
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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locus
noun[C]
uk/ˈləʊ.kəs/us/ˈloʊ.kəs/
the place where something happens or the central area of interest in something ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandlocusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If hallucinations reflect disruption of thalamocortical synchronized gamma oscillations, then, in principle, theprimarylocusof dysfunction could be either cortical or thalamic.
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We inferred from the patterns of interference and carry-over that theprimarylocusfor reducing interference is external to the bilingual lexicosemantic system.
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Despite research on narrative in everyday conversation, teacher education has not necessarily taken multi-party interaction as aprimarylocusof analysis.
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It is our contention here that developmental processes are aprimarylocusof architectural constraints on brain evolution.
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With regard to the distinction between heuristic and rule-based processing, theprimarylocusof diversity is within individuals.
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Developmental processes as aprimarylocusof architectural constraints on brain evolution therefore, are of special interest because their removal may result in the emergence of another type of creature.
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The official view had now veered away from the 1930s ideal of the collective theatre workshop, to cast the composer as theprimarylocusof artistic responsibility.
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It frames the word as avatar of a wordless musical excess that is, after all, theprimarylocus, metaphorical and otherwise, of transcendence in nineteenth-century aesthetics.
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Falk's article emphasizes the important roles of visual, gestural, and tactile signals to infants, in addition to the vocal aspects that have been theprimarylocusof language origin studies.
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On this general view, it is not necessary to see language acquisition as theprimarylocusof systematic grammatical change (although acquisition may well play a significant role).
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Although such places often do come to serve as theprimarylocusof family, work, marriage, household, and social cooperation, they are not defined by such activities or relations.
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Although an animal may perceive many aspects of its environment, only a few of these can at any time become primary loci of interaction.
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