abstract knowledge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofabstractandknowledge
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abstract
adjective
uk/ˈæb.strækt/us/ˈæb.strækt/
existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a ...
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knowledge
noun
uk/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofabstractandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, in the mentalistic framework, the formation and manipulation ofabstractknowledgeis restricted to conscious activities.
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These results indicate that children came to the experiment with some relativelyabstractknowledgeabout the instrumental.
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This claim applies to theabstractknowledgeor "competence" that underlies bilingual performance and not to language performance or behavior itself.
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However, they also underline the dangers of assuming that such knowledge necessarily represents fullyabstractknowledgeof the transitive construction.
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One is a competence component that is an idealized model of an individual'sabstractknowledgein a given domain (as discussed in the target article).
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This relatively earlyabstractknowledgeof an idiosyncratic construction casts doubt on the view that early acquisition requires innate linguistic knowledge.
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This so-called 'abstractknowledge' is justified on the grounds of transferability - that it can be taken and applied in a range of contexts.
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The frames adopted were couched in terms of formal syntactic categories but there is no implication that the children were operating with suchabstractknowledge.
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Now, when it comes to intervention, this limited andabstractknowledge, instead of recommending restraint, prompts a different attitude from the social reformer.
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This claim applies to theabstractknowledgeor competence that underlies bilingual performance and not to language performance or behavior itself.
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At issue here is the nature of theabstractknowledge(or competence) that underlies the bilingual child s language performance.
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At issue here is the nature of theabstractknowledge(or competence) that underlies the bilingual child's language performance.
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Learning words and rules :abstractknowledgeof word order in early sentence comprehension.
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Abstraction is used to abstract specific layout design knowledge into hierarchical levels of layoutabstractknowledge.
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Moreover, it is unclear to what extent operations are unconscious because the mentalistic framework restricts formation and manipulation ofabstractknowledgeto conscious activities.
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Representationally, these assumptions are stored in memory as schemas, orabstractknowledgestructures, composed of a rich network of information.
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Learning words and rules:abstractknowledgeof word order in early sentence comprehension.
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The use of inflected verb forms is often taken as evidence that children have anabstractknowledgeof tense and agreement.
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The amount ofabstractknowledgethe child adds when learning each verb in the positional pattern can be estimated by the amount of facilitation contributed by each verb.
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I propose a more traditional role for language in thought as providing the basis for the cultural development and transmission of domain-generalabstractknowledgeand reasoning skills.
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