linguistic boundary

collocation in English

meaningsoflinguisticandboundary

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linguistic
adjective
uk
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Yet enough differences persist that the role of the political and institutional border as alinguisticboundaryis not a trivial question.
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This ideological process oflinguisticboundaryerasure is relatively understudied compared to that of boundary construction and maintenance.
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This is an unfortunate usage, because thelinguisticboundary, in general, is neither visible nor permanent.
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Thelinguisticboundarywas also reflected early on in the administration of the region.
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Traditionally, "lox" designates brined rather than smoked salmon, but thelinguisticboundarybetween the two types of products has become blurred.
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He is the first to emphasize the sharpness of thelinguisticboundary.
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Some cues, such as frequently occurring grammatical morphemes and prosodic changes at linguistic boundaries are inherent in the language.
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The tendency to map linguistic boundaries onto political ones is not always accurate or valuable, and fuels myths instead of dispelling them.
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The focus of chap. 5 is multilingual and heteroglossic advertising within media contexts that extend traditional geopolitical and linguistic boundaries.
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An obvious reason why this has not been done is that the linguistic boundaries are even more numerous than the confessional ones.
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If children use prosody to locate linguistic boundaries during sentence comprehension, they should perform better on both natural pause stimuli than on the unnatural pause stimuli.
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Sport, too, has a great power to unify and can communicate across linguistic boundaries.
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However much one may dislike abbreviations in this modern world, they are very useful and can transcend national and linguistic boundaries, and it is also very simple for computers.
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The nationwide movement of linguistic groups seeking statehood resulted in a massive reorganisation of states according to linguistic boundaries in 1956.
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This is less significant than may appear since it is a comparison across linguistic boundaries.
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This is due to endogamy within kin groups and lineages or national, cultural or linguistic boundaries.
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He was also acutely interested in the transmission of those sciences across cultural and linguistic boundaries.
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The figurative societal pressures to live in accordance with a class construct are implicated along racial and linguistic boundaries that code a new subject relation.
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The discovery in the late nineteenth century that isoglosses can cut across well-established linguistic boundaries at first created considerable attention and controversy.
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Many factors may differ across cultural and linguistic boundaries and must be considered, as these differences can significantly limit the effectiveness and impact of a cross-market campaign.
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