linguistic construct
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflinguisticandconstruct
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linguistic
adjective
uk/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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construct
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.strʌkt/us/ˈkɑːn.strʌkt/
an idea or an ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandconstructfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Dative alternation is but one example of alinguisticconstructthat must be learned over and above image schemas.
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Illiterates, who lack thelinguisticconstruct"phoneme," cannot perform oral tasks that require the awareness of that construct.
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We feel it is a usefullinguisticconstructboth for source-level, human-written programming languages, and compiler internal representations.
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Thatlinguisticconstructis argument structure.
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It proposed that quantum gravity is a social andlinguisticconstruct.
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Such methods rely on directly representing an experience into alinguisticconstructrather than relying on abstractions like mimicry, translation and memorizing grammar rules and vocabulary.
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In other words, music listening is probably based on spectro-temporal cues and does not necessarily rely on linguistic constructs (figure 1).
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They can usually process more complex linguistic constructs and allow the user to specify several pieces of information at the same time.
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He uses the term ' cases ' for linguistic constructs on the semantic level that mediate between cognitive and linguistic (syntactic) categories (30-1).
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Treating configurations as objects would allow us to abstract over specific linguistic constructs.
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By extending linguistic constructs to the psycholinguistic domain and vice versa, it will thus be possible to suggest an interface between the phonology and the lexicon in acquisition.
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Note, firstly, that all punctuation marks have double, triple and multiple functional values, comparable to other multi-functional linguistic constructs such as polysemic words and multifunctional function words and morphemes.
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