universal language
collocation in Englishmeaningsofuniversalandlanguage
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universal
adjective
uk/ˌjuː.nɪˈvɜː.səl/us/ˌjuː.nəˈvɝː.səl/
existing everywhere or ...
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language
noun
uk/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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(Definition ofuniversalandlanguagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He notes that proponents of auniversallanguageusually come from a monolingual culture and have their own language in mind.
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Almost no one pursued a neurocognitive search for the basis of innateuniversallanguagestructures.
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And one of the main pillars of this new culture, it was soon realized, was auniversallanguage.
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The logic of deductive longitudinal analyses represents a clear advance over the assumption that all children follow auniversallanguagetrajectory.
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Chapter 1 succinctly sets the scene ofuniversallanguagemechanisms and crosslinguistic studies.
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The computer and the computerized subjectivity now make urban culture available to everyone, and theuniversallanguageis a combination of icons, words and characters.
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For this reason, the creation and application of auniversallanguagebecomes an urgent task in the process of creating the new culture.
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Whenever the robot system has to be enhanced new hardware specific procedures are appended to the library / language and theuniversallanguagecompiler remains unaltered.
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For several reasons, one argument runs, no existing major language can serve the purposes of auniversallanguage.
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Large has written a very valuable book for anyone who is interested in the origins of attempts to replace foreign language learning by auniversallanguage.
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Since there is nouniversallanguagewith which we can discuss the meaning of foreign sentences, the language we share with our students is the next best choice.
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In other words, auniversallanguagemust be universally accessible, especially if the information conveyed in that language was likely to upset preconceptions and focus action.
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Bringing the concepts of structural coupling and attunement to the realm of musical experience suggests a very specific process that demolishes the idea of music as auniversallanguage.
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It may be naive to say that music is auniversallanguagethat transcends all boundaries, but it does seem that a great deal of music travels remarkably well.
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This is a waste of resources and a neglect of the nearest thing ever devised to auniversallanguagein our own tongue.
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