theoretical account
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftheoreticalandaccount
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theoretical
adjective
uk/θɪəˈret.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌθiː.əˈret̬.kəl/
based on the ideas that relate to a subject, not the practical uses of ...
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account
noun
uk/əˈkaʊnt/us/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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Thistheoreticalaccountproduces a number of predictions.
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We often use empirical regularities counterfactually, even absent anytheoreticalaccount.
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What would the main characteristics of such atheoreticalaccountbe?
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He gives a newtheoreticalaccountof how to think about the state.
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We put forward atheoreticalaccountof overgeneralization based on current models of adult language processing.
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This study also presents a preliminarytheoreticalaccountof prosodic development in a signed language.
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Notheoreticalaccountof a range of behavior is complete without a cost-benefit analysis.
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The surprising contrast between agentive and psychological passive thus follows, strengthening thetheoreticalaccount.
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The first section builds a plausibletheoreticalaccountof the privatization phenomenon.
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The three parts of thistheoreticalaccountexplain why candidates tend to diverge rather than converge as spatial models predict.
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We emphasize, however, the importance of a timing mechanism for anytheoreticalaccountof language dysfunction in this disorder.
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I begin this essay in legal philosophy by sketching the skeleton of atheoreticalaccountof property rights.
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We suggest, however, that it may be necessary to add a timing mechanism to thetheoreticalaccount.
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There is notheoreticalaccountof the mental representations that are changing within their postulated dynamic processes, and how these changes are to be quantified.
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It also provides a usefultheoreticalaccountof how different types of interaction between different political actors may produce different types of impact.
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What is needed is atheoreticalaccountof brain-behavior relations in terms of task-specific assumptions and predictions, being embedded in a behavioral theory.
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Of course, these are only analogies and, if they are to assist us in understanding pantheistic prayer, some moretheoreticalaccountis needed.
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The idea that this simple gametheoreticalaccountis descriptive rather than normative is surely dead in experimental economics and psychology.
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A first generaltheoreticalaccountof enlargement has been adopted from the broad literature on trade integration and free-trade areas.
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It further calls for atheoreticalaccountthat combines some of the fine-grained semantic distinctions incorporated in projectionist models with the syntactic mechanisms embodied in constructional models.
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Of course, we have nothing like a complete adaptation explanation for language, but that type of explanation is our best currently availabletheoreticalaccountof its existence.
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A language is taken to be a collection of structured symbolic expressions, and a generative grammar is simply an explicittheoreticalaccountof one such collection.
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Note that achievement predicates in the imperfect - a condition that may be odd for some speakers according to thetheoreticalaccountwe assumed - reflect precisely this fact.
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Instead, thetheoreticalaccountwould presumably draw on general principles of memory, such as contextual cues in retrieval and the distinctiveness of memory representations within a retrieval context.
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