linguistic phenomenon
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflinguisticandphenomenon
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linguistic
adjective
uk/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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phenomenon
noun[C]
uk/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/us/fəˈnɑː.mə.nɑːn/
something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandphenomenonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is usually bothersome to be confronted with statements about the supposed universal nature of a particularlinguisticphenomenon.
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Such modulation is not a solelylinguisticphenomenon.
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So far, triggering has been described exclusively as alinguisticphenomenon.
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These examples illustrate that the use of lexical items with comparable meanings to fulfil comparable discourse functions is a widespreadlinguisticphenomenon.
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In such cases, the researcher is faced with the task of determining whether the data collected are representative of thelinguisticphenomenonunder investigation.
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Second, grammatical gender is alinguisticphenomenonthat has been extensively researched in the monolingual literature from a variety of viewpoints.
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However, for any givenlinguisticphenomenon, one can typically find a whole range of competing and evolving explanations.
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I will suggest that the cruciallinguisticphenomenonis provided by the linguistic mechanisms of quantification and the relative pronoun (the natural language equivalent of the bound variable of quantification).
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Since this proposed ' 'language feature' ' is not independently motivated for any otherlinguisticphenomenon, it serves only to re-label the descriptive facts, and is therefore tautological.
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An initial and fundamental step toward identifying the patterns or organizations associated with alinguisticphenomenonis to see whether that phenomenon has any discernible distribution in talk.
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Thislinguisticphenomenonis not unusual for this region.
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Although prescriptive grammarians often describe this kind of language as crass or distasteful, it is a continuinglinguisticphenomenonwith clear sociological importance.
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Despite the extensive literature on the linguistic phenomena, they are seldom taken into account in the design of information systems.
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A difficulty in lexicon reuse is that each resource has its own representation syntax and covers a particular subset of linguistic phenomena.
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Using linguistic phenomena to motivate a set of coherence relations.
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One involves constructivists taking seriously some of the linguistic phenomena the nativists study.
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