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  2. Lexical integrity hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The lexical integrity hypothesis (LIH) or lexical integrity principle is a hypothesis in linguistics which states that syntactic transformations do not apply to subparts of words. It functions as a constraint on transformational grammar .

  3. John A. Lucy - Wikipedia

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    John Lucy is a modern proponent of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. He has argued for a weak version of this hypothesis as a result of his comparative studies between the grammars of English and Mayan Yucatec. [5]

  4. Lexicalist hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The lexicalist hypothesis is a hypothesis proposed by Noam Chomsky in which he claims that syntactic transformations only can operate on syntactic constituents. [ ambiguous ] [ jargon ] [ 1 ] It says that the system of grammar that assembles words is separate and different from the system of grammar that assembles phrases out of words.

  5. Crosslinguistic influence - Wikipedia

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    This hypothesis is also known as the Crosslinguistic Hypothesis, developed by Hulk and Müller. The Crosslinguistic Hypothesis states that influence will occur in bilingual acquisition in areas of particular difficulty, even for monolingual native language acquisition. It re-examined the extent of the differentiation of the language systems due ...

  6. Distributional semantics - Wikipedia

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    The distributional hypothesis in linguistics is derived from the semantic theory of language usage, i.e. words that are used and occur in the same contexts tend to purport similar meanings. [ 2 ] The underlying idea that "a word is characterized by the company it keeps" was popularized by Firth in the 1950s.

  7. Lexical hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The lexical hypothesis is a major basis of the study of the Big Five personality traits, [9] the HEXACO model of personality structure [10] and the 16PF Questionnaire and has been used to study the structure of personality traits in a number of cultural and linguistic settings.

  8. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis in linguistics states that the grammatical structure of a mother language influences the way we perceive the world. The hypothesis has been largely abandoned by linguists as it has found very limited experimental support, at least in its strong form, linguistic determinism .

  9. Linguistic determinism - Wikipedia

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    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis branches out into two theories: linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity. Linguistic determinism is viewed as the stronger form – because language is viewed as a complete barrier, a person is stuck with the perspective that the language enforces – while linguistic relativity is perceived as a weaker form of the theory because language is discussed as a ...