But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Linguistic anthropology ( also called anthropological linguistics ) seeks to understand the processes of human communications, verbal and non-verbal, variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture.

The Austro-Asiatic ( Austroasiatic ) languages, in recent classifications synonymous with Mon – Khmer, are a large language family of Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh.

Afroasiatic ( alternatively Afro-Asiatic ), also known as Hamito-Semitic, is a large language family, including about 375 living languages.

* The Afroasiatic identity of Ongota is also broadly questioned, as is its position within Afroasiatic among those who accept it, due to the " mixed " appearance of the language and a paucity of research and data.

It also serves as an exceptional introduction to the concept and use of argumentative language, lending itself well to secondary and post-secondary essay courses.

Kemeny and Kurtz observe that while " undisciplined " use of unconditional GOTOs and conditional IF-THEN GOTOs can result in " spaghetti code " a programmer can write structured programs using these instructions ; on the other hand " it is also possible, and not too hard, to write badly structured programs in a structured language ".

Interestingly, the geographic borderlines between the different accents ( isoglosses ) coincide strongly with the borders of the states and also with the border with Bavaria, with Bavarians having a markedly different rhythm of speech in spite of the similarities in the language.

The proof of the independence result also shows that a wide class of mathematical statements, including all statements that can be phrased in the language of Peano arithmetic, are provable in ZF if and only if they are provable in ZFC.

The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.

It also takes the applied approach, looking at individual language development and clinical issues.

Black sign language speakers are also more likely to sign higher on the body.

" However, parents can learn to recognize their baby's approximations of adult ASL signs, just as they will later learn to recognize their approximations of oral language, so teaching an infant ASL is also possible.

An applet typically also refers to Java applets, i. e., programs written in the Java programming language that are included in a web page.

Aquila is the Latin and Romance language word for eagle and may also refer to:

The Miesian formal language of geometric grids employed in the buildings was also used by Aalto for other sites in Helsinki, including the Enso-Gutzeit building ( 1962 ), the Academic Bookstore ( 1962 ) and the SYP Bank building ( 1969 ).

Acting also often demands an ability to employ dialects, accents and body language, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat.

The ancient Assyrians also used the Sumerian language in their literature and liturgy, although to a more limited extent in the Middle-and Neo-Assyrian periods, when Akkadian became the main literary language.

It also remained the spoken tongue of the indigenous Assyrian / Babylonian citizens of all Mesopotamia under Persian, Greek and Roman rule, and indeed well into the Arab period it was still the language of the majority, particularly in the north of Mesopotamia, surviving to this day among the Assyrian Christians.

The alphabet in the Polish language contains 32 letters.

For most speakers ( even native speakers ), this form of the language is generally difficult to understand, as it contains many highly specialised terms for diplomatic, internal, official, and military matters.

The XML Schema language, sometimes used in connection with representing data for storage in computers, contains built-in primitive datatypes, date and dateTime, which do not allow a year zero, and designate years BC as negative numbers.

In a language with records and references, binary trees are typically constructed by having a tree node structure which contains some data and references to its left child and its right child.

In languages with tagged unions such as ML, a tree node is often a tagged union of two types of nodes, one of which is a 3-tuple of data, left child, and right child, and the other of which is a " leaf " node, which contains no data and functions much like the null value in a language with pointers.

A formal grammar defines ( or generates ) a formal language, which is a ( usually infinite ) set of finite-length sequences of symbols ( i. e. strings ) that may be constructed by applying production rules to another sequence of symbols which initially contains just the start symbol.

A scene file contains objects in a strictly defined language or data structure ; it would contain geometry, viewpoint, texture, lighting, and shading information as a description of the virtual scene.

Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.

A 1989 recording of Enya singing " Oíche Chiúin ", an Irish language version of " Silent Night ", has been reissued at least twice: on The Christmas EP ( which otherwise contains several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya ) and the 1997 edition of the charity album A Very Special Christmas.

Halakhot Gedolot (" Great Law Book "), by R. Simeon Kayyara, published two generations later, contains extensive additional material, mainly from Responsa and Monographs of the Geonim, and is presented in a form that is closer to the original Talmud language and structure.

The language contains ordinary arithmetic and comparison operators, and unconditional, conditional, and assigned jumps.

Some examples of leet include B1FF and n00b, a term for the stereotypical newbie ; the l33t programming language ; and the webcomic Megatokyo, which contains characters who speak leet.

This work deals mainly with language, beginning with the reflection on artistic expression in The Structure of Behavior-which contains a passage on El Greco ( p. 203ff ) that prefigures the remarks that he develops in " Cézanne's Doubt " ( 1945 ) and follows the discussion in Phenomenology of Perception.

This volume contains many of his early papers, in which he argues for a deep connection between language and social structure.

Flash contains an object-oriented language called ActionScript and supports automation via the JavaScript Flash language ( JSFL ).

Conversely, Scheme contains multiple coherent subsets that suffice to construct the rest of the language as library macros, and so the language designers do not even bother to say which portions of the language must be implemented as language constructs, and which must be implemented as parts of a library.

For example, Java is both an object-oriented language ( because it encourages object-oriented organization ) and a concurrent language ( because it contains built-in constructs for running multiple threads in parallel ).

The language of Presburger arithmetic contains constants 0 and 1 and a binary function +, interpreted as addition.

In the theory of formal languages in computability theory, a pumping lemma or pumping argument states that, for a particular language to be a member of a language class, any sufficiently long string in the language contains a section, or sections, that can be removed, or repeated any number of times, with the resulting string remaining in that language.

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

To this extent some stretching of the literal meaning of the Committee Report seems justified, since the literal meaning conflicts with the clear implication, if not the language, of the statute.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.

In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike studying the flora and fauna of those places.

In the Ancient Macedonian language ( pella ) means stone, and some toponyms are derived from this word: ( Pella: capital of Ancient Macedonia ), ( Pellini-Pallini ).

Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

* A language may spell some words with unpronounced letters that exist for historical or other reasons.

Also, the preterite ( simple past ) is very rarely used in Austria, especially in the spoken language, except for some modal verbs ( ich sollte, ich wollte ).

The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).

Modern cultures in this region, many of whom claim some of these ancient people as ancestors, contain a striking range of diversity in lifestyles, social organization, language and religious beliefs.

In some countries, such as Zimbabwe, it is widely used alongside a national sign language.

But, such complete secret languages are rare, because the speakers usually have some public language in common, on which the argot is largely based.

More formally, the complexity of a string is the length of the shortest possible description of the string in some fixed universal description language ( the sensitivity of complexity relative to the choice of description language is discussed below ).

Also from there is the word bung, from the Sydney pidgin English ( and ultimately from the Sydney Aboriginal language ), meaning " dead ", with some extension to " broken " or " useless ".

Regional dialects in the United States typically reflect some elements of the language of the main immigrant groups in any particular region of the country, especially in terms of pronunciation and vernacular vocabulary.

The neural organization of language is complicated ; language is a comprehensive and complex behavior and it makes sense that it isn't the product of some small, circumscribed region of the brain.

In a declined language, the morphology of the article or noun changes in some way according to the grammatical role played by the noun in a given sentence.

The Adamic language is, according to Jews ( as recorded in the midrashim ), some Christians, and Mormons, the language spoken by Adam ( and possibly Eve ) in the Garden of Eden.