These linguists argue that the concept of a Language Acquisition Device ( LAD ) is unsupported by evolutionary anthropology, which tends to show a gradual adaptation of the human brain and vocal cords to the use of language, rather than a sudden appearance of a complete set of binary parameters delineating the whole spectrum of possible grammars ever to have existed and ever to exist.

Major symptoms are sudden loss of vision ( partial or complete ), sudden blurred or " foggy " vision, and pain on movement of the affected eye.

The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi ( who later became known as Kushans ), who had conquered Bactria by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian ( circa 127 BC ), who had been sent by the Han emperor to investigate lands to the west of China.

The complete overtime was always played ; there was no " sudden death " feature.

RATs are common in military aircraft which must be capable of surviving sudden and complete loss of power.

" Cold turkey " is a colloquial term indicating abrupt withdrawal from an addictive drug, and in this context indicates sudden and complete cessation of all nicotine use.

Only the sudden appearance of Soviet military vehicles, and then tanks, seemed to prevent a complete takeover.

One particular test was conducted by a professor at the University of New South Wales that unintentionally tested the worst case scenario of a sudden and complete refrigerant loss into the passenger compartment followed by subsequent ignition.

For propeller driven aircraft it almost always requires a complete rebuild of engines because the propellers strike the ground and suffer a sudden stoppage if they are running during the impact.

The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi ( who later became known as Kushans ), who had conquered Bactria by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian ( circa 127 BCE ), who had been sent by the Han emperor to investigate lands to the west of China.

The assault by the Zentraedi on Earth marked the sudden and almost complete end of the Zentraedi race.

The band were shellshocked at his sudden death, however vowed to continue as a trio and complete the project.

Prior to the 2006 season, if the score was tied at the end of regulation, the Arena Football League used extra time ; one complete additional 15-minute quarter ( originally, a seven and a half minute period ) of sudden death was played.

A complete prognosis includes the expected duration, the function, and a description of the course of the disease, such as progressive decline, intermittent crisis, or sudden, unpredictable crisis.

A sudden flash shows the two statues that Ash saw above the receptionist's counter, however this time the headless statue now has a complete head.

After his sudden death on 01 / 11 / 1859, only months after taking up the position, the committee appointed William Alford Lloyd to complete the installation.

The most frequent cause of complete Bálint's syndrome is said by some to be sudden and severe hypotension, resulting in bilateral borderzone infarction in the occipito-parietal region.

* In the complete 145-minute version, the narration is heard only at the beginning of the film, and there are no sudden breaks in continuity.

In spite of her sudden spirit of independence, Bee never quite makes a complete break and continues to rely on Andy to direct the course of her life and make the difficult decisions.

The sudden Iraqi air strikes against six Iranian airfields and four other military installations, launched on the afternoon of 22 September 1980, came as a complete surprise and caused a shock in the renamed " IRIAF ", which was in the midst of reorganizing following the Iranian revolution which had ended 1 year earlier.

Joe members managed a sneak attack on Cobra, turning the operation into a complete fiasco, but just as the Joes are about to capture Serpentor, a sudden burst of fire drives them back.

Construction of the main structure of the Integratron was complete circa 1959, but Van Tassel continued to work on the device until his sudden death in 1978.

According to Lombroso and Scahill, 2008, "( f ) ive diagnostic criteria were proposed for PANDAS: ( 1 ) the presence of a tic disorder and / or OCD consistent with DSM-IV ; ( 2 ) prepubertal onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms ; ( 3 ) a history of a sudden onset of symptoms and / or an episodic course with abrupt symptom exacerbation interspersed with periods of partial or complete remission ; ( 4 ) evidence of a temporal association between onset or exacerbation of symptoms and a prior streptococcal infection ; and ( 5 ) adventitious movements ( e. g., motoric hyperactivity and choreiform movements ) during symptom exacerbation ".

Birth and death rates of Japan since 1950, with the sudden drop in hinoeuma year ( 1966 )

Excessive activation of the vagal nerve during emotional stress, which is a parasympathetic overcompensation of a strong sympathetic nervous system response associated with stress, can also cause vasovagal syncope because of a sudden drop in blood pressure and heart rate.

The PSU will also normally contain the drop-down oxygen masks which are activated if there is a sudden drop in cabin pressure.

The MythBusters program also tested the veracity of a video found on the Internet, whereby a quantity of thermite was allowed to drop onto a block of ice of similar mass, causing a sudden explosion.

* Hypotension – Low blood pressure or a sudden drop in blood pressure.

Some of their famous sound effects included a rapid bongo drum take used for when a character's feet were scrambling before taking off, a " KaBONG " sound produced on a guitar for when Quick Draw McGraw, in his Zorro-style " El Kabong " crime fighting guise, would smash a guitar over a villain's head, the sound of a car's brake drum combined with a bulb horn for when Fred Flintstone would drop his bowling ball onto his foot, an automobile's tires squealing with a " skipping " effect added for when someone would slide to a sudden stop, a bass-drum-and-cymbal combination called the " Boom Crash " for when someone would fall down or smack into an object, a xylophone being struck rapidly on the same note for a tip-toeing effect, and a violin being plucked with the tuning pegs being raised to simulate something like pulling out a cat's whisker.

This is the only high ground around and a good defensive position for Hardrada's army caught out by Godwinson's sudden appearance on the skyline, as he rounded the ridge at Gate Helmsley to drop downhill swiftly onto Hardrada's unsuspecting army.

Crossing it east to west was a series of hills and a sudden drop in elevation known as Andram, the Long Wall.

New Rome police had systematically taken advantage of the village's sudden drop ( from to ) in posted speed along the busy thoroughfare of West Broad Street to pull over thousands of motorists, raising nearly $ 400, 000 gross annually from speeding tickets but primarily vehicle citations including trivial offenses such as dusty taillights and improperly tinted windows.

Because it is often difficult to observe intrinsic values in real-life markets, bubbles are often conclusively identified only in retrospect, when a sudden drop in prices appears.

A mechanical or physical shock is a sudden acceleration or deceleration caused, for example, by impact, drop, kick, earthquake, or explosion.

The sudden change from impermeable Wealden Clay to permeable chalk and the increased gradient of the river ( which drops 15 m in the six mile ( 10 km ) stretch between Brockham and Leatherhead, compared to 3 m in between Horley and Brockham ) allow the water table to drop below the bed of the river.

The apparent symptom is that the battery " remembers " the point in its charge cycle where recharging began and during subsequent use suffers a sudden drop in voltage at that point, as if the battery had been discharged.

In a pair-instability supernova, the pair production effect causes a sudden pressure drop in the star's core, leading to a rapid partial collapse.

Cane Bay is a popular destination for scuba enthusiasts due to the fact that just a few hundred meters off shore the topography makes a sudden drop into a deep underwater trench.

Thunderstorms often produce heavy falls of rain and occasionally hail in the afternoons and early evenings, also bringing a sudden drop in temperature.

The hull ruptures rapidly, causing a sudden drop in pressure inside the kernel and a corresponding rapid expansion of the steam, which expands the starch and proteins of the endosperm into airy foam.

Brainstem Slurring dysarthria ( tongue weakness causing impaired speech ); dysphagia ( difficulty swallowing ); numbness, weakness ; all four limb paresthesia ; drop attacks from sudden loss of postural tone are basilar in origin ; a vertebrobasilar artery occlusion episode causes symptoms to be induced by abrupt position changes.

The source of the Tugela River ( Zulu for ' sudden ') is the Mont-Aux-Sources plateau which extends several kilometers beyond The Amphitheatre escarpment from which the falls drop.

As the pressurized molten protein mixture exits the extruder, the sudden drop in pressure causes rapid expansion into a puffy solid that is then dried.

If the spermatic cord becomes twisted while the scrotum is loose, the sudden contraction of the cremaster muscle that results from an abrupt drop in ambient temperature can potentially trap the testicle in this position and may result in testicular torsion.

In July 2008 there were repercussions in the media when, as the result of a sudden drop in temperature, two participants died of exhaustion and hypothermia At the end of August 2009 the Swiss, Freddy Nock, walked along a cable of the Zugspitze Glacier Cable Car from the Zugspitzplatt to the summit.

This causes a sudden and sustained drop in aggregate demand, and this shock is argued to be the proximate cause of a class of economic crises, properly financial crises.

* Ectoplasm, condensation caused by a sudden drop in pressure, as in following the shock wave of a supersonic aircraft