universal tendency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofuniversalandtendency
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universal
adjective
uk/ˌjuː.nɪˈvɜː.səl/us/ˌjuː.nəˈvɝː.səl/
existing everywhere or ...
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tendency
noun[C]
uk/ˈten.dən.si/us/ˈten.dən.si/
If someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or ...
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Likewise, there is auniversaltendencyto favour obstruent onsets.
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For example, there is auniversaltendencyto favour sonorant codas.
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The intonation used in a number of different question types and unfinished utterances is treated in some detail and related to the reporteduniversaltendencyfor such utterances to rise.
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Theuniversaltendencyfor each successive cohort at each duration is upward, and there is no sign of levelling off.
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In this sense, auniversaltendencytoward accommodation would seem to be part and parcel of the identity-formation process.
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In particular, there is auniversaltendencyfor new information to occur towards the end of utterances and for given information to occur towards the beginning.
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Incidentally, that almostuniversaltendencyhas a devastating effect on politics today.
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In fact, one of the serious complications has been an almostuniversaltendencyfor firms to overstate their requirements.
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First, outside of contact situations, there is no substratum with which universal tendencies might converge.
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These findings support the existence of universal tendencies in cross-linguistic phonological acquisition.
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Such a combination of numerically weighted universal tendencies in a single probabilistic generalization is put forward as the main theoretical contribution of the volume.
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It is conceivable that none of the theories discussed so far account for both the universal tendencies and the languagespecific patterns that have been found.
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Further cross-linguistic research on children's phonological acquisition is needed, focusing on both the identification of universal tendencies and the influence of the ambient language.
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We can capture both the universal tendencies and the language-particular realization of alternative scopes in the following manner.
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There are clear universal tendencies.
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In a pidginization situation with typologically very distinct languages, one would expect the mutual linguistic accommodation to be less successful and the dependence on universal tendencies to be greater.
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The issue of the interaction of transfer and universal tendencies is discussed in more detail in the last section of this paper.
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This deviation from the adult pattern suggests that they are forming analyses of their own as part of a rule-learning process, not conforming to universal tendencies.
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