linguistic description
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflinguisticanddescription
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linguistic
adjective
uk/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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description
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
something that tells you what something or someone ...
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(Definition oflinguisticanddescriptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At the same time, the need for carefullinguisticdescriptionis as urgent as ever, for the dual purposes of scientific inquiry and clinical application.
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Thelinguisticdescriptionproduced of the genre serves two further purposes: classificatory and predictive.
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It allows one to break down thelinguisticdescriptionof a given phenomenon into a large number of autonomous sub-descriptions.
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An illustration on the cover shows a face with describable features picked out, implying an application to face recognition based on automaticlinguisticdescription.
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Linguists who had earlier focused onlinguisticdescriptionand theory now also work in par tnership with communities on revitalization.
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Linguisticdescriptionand linguistic prescription find themselves still competing for a suitable balance.
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Linguisticdescriptionis only a label to the true meaning of the thing to be described.
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It is obviously a highly significant development which has already had momentous effects onlinguisticdescription.
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Returning to the general point, it is misleading to suppose that the object oflinguisticdescriptionis the same as the subject of language teaching.
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At the same time, the approach advocated in the volume provides the field with a much-needed balance between theoretical abstraction and detailedlinguisticdescription.
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This holds both forlinguisticdescription(including diachronic change) and for all types of psycholinguistic investigations, from acquisition over processing to language impairments.
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The grammar is not viewed as alinguisticdescriptionbut as a programming language for recognizers.
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Functional approaches tolinguisticdescriptionand analysis have becoming increasingly significant for language pedagogy over the last twenty or so years.
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Withlinguisticdescriptionthat deals with attested reality, the situation is different.
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The book is successful in achieving the purpose of providing reinforcement, practice, and training inlinguisticdescription, and developing autonomous thinking.
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In this view, the content of the language subject is necessarily dependent onlinguisticdescription.
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As its phonological behaviour is consistent with that of other pre-stressing suffixes or clitics, we do not consider this orthographic quirk relevant to itslinguisticdescription.
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This interest has been fed by an increasing awareness even in generative linguistics of the fuzziness, semiregularity and irregularity of many phenomena on all levels oflinguisticdescription.
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Intuition will always outrunlinguisticdescription.
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Thus, while the emphasis is on modern languages and onlinguisticdescription, it is a welcome feature of the book that it also offers some historical, sociological and ethnological background.
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