linguistic cue

collocation in English

meaningsoflinguisticandcue

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linguistic
adjective
uk
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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cue
noun[C]
uk
/kjuː/us
/kjuː/
a word or action in a play or film that is used as a signal by a performer to begin saying or ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandcuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thelinguisticcuechurch activates a label unit associated with a particular kind of entity known as a church.
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As we used digitized speech stimuli in our experiment, thelinguisticcueto the odd word out (the different coda) comprised a relatively small portion of the overall syllable.
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They suggested that prosodic cues to linguistic units were more salient in the female voice and that prosody may be a more potentlinguisticcuethan grammatical morphemes.
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For example, alinguisticcuelike church will automatically evoke a knowledge structure comprising its various parts, as well as any general cultural background information we have about churches.
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This increase in first-noun choice illustrates that the children are able to focus on word order as the mainlinguisticcuewhen presented with sentences of the canonical type.
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They argue that 'non-matching' texts demand that test takers process the incoming linguistic cues quickly and accurately, adjusting their schema when necessary.
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In this section we present a functional framework for defining concepts in terms of the linguistic cues used to signal their usage in text.
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Of the four linguistic cues discussed here, this is the least syntactic.
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Real-time language processing requires that the listener (or reader) integrates linguistic cues into the ongoing sentence representation.
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Linguistic cues enhance the learning of perceptual cues.
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This limited understanding emerges from a sensitivity to linguistic cues that tell the child that two is a number word - but nothing else.
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Two kinds of linguistic cues are available to help children discover and sort out grammatical morphemes : semantic-functional and phonological-prosodic.
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There were two linguistic cues to gender in our study : the phonological form of the nominative, and an agreeing demonstrative.
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It is possible that these languagewide differences provide linguistic cues not available to monolinguals that may be sufficient to completely eliminate lexical competition.
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There are two general kinds of linguistic cues that exist.
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A different hypothesis, which we explore in this paper, is that linguistic cues may play a significant role in children's acquisition of number word meaning.
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