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Famous quotes containing the words specific and/or language:

    Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.
    Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)