cross-linguistic evidence. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She discovered a striking cross-linguistic difference in eyewitness memory. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in Translation] Reference
'Hand it to me, brother' and a cross-linguistic encounter here: "Cay curitacho micunqui?". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: GUAMAN POMA.] Reference
This presumably entails but is not entailed by cross-linguistic local compositionality of meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Compositionality] Reference
One of the most powerful cross-cultural/cross-linguistic moments I ever witnessed was in Ann Arbor. From Wordnik.com. [Guest blogger - Megan Abbott] Reference
Members of our lab were able to discover another way of doing this research: cross-linguistic adoption. From Wordnik.com. [What if you heard your first word at age 6?] Reference
Thanks, Rhalmi, for this very clearly articulated set of arguments in favour of cross-linguistic comparison. From Wordnik.com. [T is for Translation « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
Beyond this, we aim to answer the question why language universals and cross-linguistic variation are the way they are. From Wordnik.com. [Limits on possible language changes] Reference
The cross-linguistic evidence is that ejectivs are quite stable, certainly they're much more common than pharyngealized consonants. From Wordnik.com. [Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?] Reference
The claim might concern reference or meaning, it might be local or global, and it might be construed in a cross-linguistic or a language-bound manner. From Wordnik.com. [Compositionality] Reference
As part of our work on the cross-linguistic study of various phenomena, we also work on the descriptive grammars of various little studied, and often endangered, languages. From Wordnik.com. [Limits on possible language changes] Reference
Believers in cross-linguistic differences counter that everyone does not pay attention to the same things: if everyone did, one might think it would be easy to learn to speak other languages. From Wordnik.com. [HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? - By Lera Boroditsky] Reference
Learning Spanish will help those legal professionals who accept Spanish-speaking clients to be more effective, competent and ethical practitioners who can handle client matters in intercultural and cross-linguistic situations. From Wordnik.com. [The Legal Underground:] Reference
To this end, Linguistic Discovery aims for all of its articles to contain original or hard-to-access data, including cross-linguistic studies whose novelty may not be in the individual pieces of data described, but in the data base. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ONLINE JOURNALS.] Reference
Witness page 56 of Archaic Syntax in Indo-European - The spread of transitivity 2000 where the theory is artfully destroyed in a pair of brief sentences:Yet cross-linguistic analysis has pointed out that ergative marking affects first of all inanimates, and only later animates. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
Jesse Snedeker my PhD adviser as of Monday and her students recently completed a study of cross-linguistic late-adoptees -- that is, children who were adopted between the ages of 2 and 7 into a family that spoke a different language from that of the child's original home or orphanage. From Wordnik.com. [Why is learning a foreign language so darn hard?] Reference
Maybe I should have said "unrealistic"I have to admit that I'm not ready to abandon the use of examples from my native languagebut a real effort to stay away from the standard example languages can only lead us to a broader perspective and a better basis for cross-linguistic generalizations. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STANDARD LANGUAGE EXAMPLES.] Reference
As Mauss himself points out, the Latin word for 'gift', dosis, is a transcription of the Greek dosis, 'dose of poison', just as the German word for poison is wait for it Gift -- etymological and cross-linguistic links that lead Derrida to write of 'the poisoned gift of which legacies are made'. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Two examples of cross-linguistic differences in intonation patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The trouble with many cliches is that they are often neither cross-cultural nor cross-linguistic. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3] Reference
5. Learning Spanish will help those legal professionals who accept Spanish-speaking clients to be more effective, competent and ethical practitioners who can handle client matters in intercultural and cross-linguistic situations. From Wordnik.com. [The Legal Underground:] Reference
L. Call the strengthened principle cross-linguistic compositionality, and (C) ” when ˜determine™ is simply read as ˜functionally determine™ and we may have different functions for different languages ” language-bound compositionality. From Wordnik.com. [Compositionality] Reference
" The linguist Harold F. Schiffman has similarly noted that alien languages in films are primarily designed to "confuse and amuse," with little or no attention paid to the nuances of cross-linguistic communication. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
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