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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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parameters of focal adjustment
Language; Linguistics
There are three parameters along which a focal adjustment can vary. The three parameters are: (1) selection ; (2) perspective ; and (3) abstraction (2). Together, these parameters ...
participant roles
Language; Linguistics
In construction grammar (2 ), the ‘slots’ encoded by a particular verb which determine what participant types can be combined with the verb. This follows from the assumption that ...
pattern
Language; Linguistics
One of the factors which governs the attentional system in the conceptual structuring system. Relates to the way in which patterns of attention are organized. There are three ...
pattern of distribution
Language; Linguistics
One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Pattern of distribution relates to how matter is distributed through space, or how action is distributed through ...
pattern-finding ability
Language; Linguistics
One of two general cognitive skills that enables humans to acquire language. This ability allows humans to recognize patterns and perform ‘statistical’ analysis over sequences of ...
perception
Language; Linguistics
Involves human sensory (or sense-perceptory) systems and the brain in order to form representations known as percepts. Perception consists of three stages: (1) sensation; (2) ...
perceptual meaning analysis
Language; Linguistics
The mechanism whereby perceptual stimuli are redescribed from perceptual arrays into rudimentary representations which support more complex concepts. The term was coined by ...
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