Quotes About Linguistic phenomenon

Por ejemplo, el español actual no admite el grupo [s] + consonante a principio de palabra, por lo que la mayoría de los hispanohablantes que no se hayan formado específicamente en ello pronunciarán el inglés still [st?l] como [es?til], es decir, insertarán una [e] para hacer la combinación de sonidos admisible, igual que es admisible «estar» [es?ta?] (del latín stare [?sta?e]); esto es un fenómeno conocido como prótesis vocálica.

The word for her in Paris, a courtesan who had made it to the stage, was grue—it happened so often there was a word for it.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

you have to acknowledge the possibility that generative metaphors are a major phenomenon in language and an important clue to our cognitive makeup. Abstract ideas are connected in a systematic way to more concrete experiences.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.