One of the most salient features of literary value has been deemed to be its influence upon and organization of emotion.

In such languages, the ergative case is typically marked ( most salient ), while the absolutive case is unmarked.

The high levels of unemployment and inequality are considered by the government and most South Africans to be the most salient economic problems facing the country.

Loudness is related to amplitude and intensity and is one of most salient qualities of a sound, although in general sounds can be recognized independently of amplitude.

Its most salient feature is its vertical direction ; it is the only vertical script that is written from left to right.

The principal and most salient provisions of Henry IV ’ s Edict of Nantes, as promulgated at Nantes in Brittany on 13 April 1598, include:

" A faceless prophet ," writes the Islamicist Pierre Lory, " Hermes possesses no concrete or salient characteristics, differing in this regard from most of the major figures of the Bible and the Quran.

To improve learners ' awareness of conceptual metaphor, one monolingual learner's dictionary, the Macmillan English Dictionary has introduced 50 or so ' metaphor boxes ' covering the most salient Lakoffian metaphors in English.

Its architecture was the most salient Carolingian art to a society that never saw an illuminated manuscript and rarely handled one of the new coins.

In " Cry to Me ", and in his " most popular recordings from 1962 onward, elements of the African-American folk-preaching style ", which incorporated " the fusion of speech and song ", " the use of repetition or elongation for emphasis ", and the improvisation of " hollers and vocal melismas ", the " flowers and curlicues of gospel singing ", are salient.

The most salient feature of Dayak social organisation is the practice of Longhouse domicile.

His eclecticism, his ontology and his philosophy of history were declared in principle and in most of their salient details in the Fragments philosophiques ( Paris, 1826 ).

The most salient feature of this new aesthetic was its “ abstract ,” or anti-naturalistic character.

Though its exact parameters remain debatable, from the early 1970s to the present day the most salient literary movement has been postmodernism.

Its most salient feature is its diphthongization ( rising diphthongs ).

" In The Musical Quarterly he was described as " the most salient musical phenomenon of our time.

These findings are consistent with metacognition as the third type of experience is often identified as the most salient one.

Instead, papers are distributed in hard copy and speakers call out paragraph numbers to call attention to their most salient points.

The most salient characteristics of landscape ecology are its emphasis on the relationship among pattern, process and scale and its focus on broad-scale ecological and environmental issues.

-A crisis of verification is perhaps the most salient and politically dangerous aspect of rumor.

Aerobic exercise and fitness can be contrasted with anaerobic exercise, of which strength training and short-distance running are the most salient examples.

Although conditions varied from region to region, a situation that was, in part, a reflection of factional divisions that still existed within the CPK during the 1970s, the testimony of refugees reveals that the most salient social division was between the politically suspect " new people ," those driven out of the towns after the communist victory, and the more reliable " old people ", the poor and lower middle-class peasants who had remained in the countryside.

The cultural difference is most likely due to the more restrictive nature of Chinese society, thus, making infidelity a more salient concern.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.

The primary reason for the abandonment of the `` shore occupied by '' thesis has been the assimilation and accumulation of archaeological evidence, the most striking feature of early English studies in this century.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

* A classic overview by one of Aristotle's most prominent English translators, in print since 1923.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

The most common English pronunciation of Aphrodite is.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

* 1612 – The " Samlesbury witches ", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.

Alfred sought to remedy this through an ambitious court-centred programme of translating into English the books he deemed " most necessary for all men to know.

Contains the most famous single account of Alfonso in the English language.

André de Longjumeau ( also known as Andrew of Longjumeau in English ) was a 13th century Dominican missionary and diplomat and one of the most active Occidental diplomats in the East in the 13th century.

English is the most common language in the United States.

Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was in most places in the 17th century.

Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, West Country English and Scottish English as well as the fact most regions of England at this time also had rhotic accents.