0 the fact of being important to or connected with what is happening or being discussed:
The salience of these facts was questioned by several speakers.
In the model, word final stops and fricatives were given weaker representations in the normal case to reflect their lower salience.
The salience of family relationships is supported by findings from studies that address patient experiences, preferences, and needs.
Such preference might perhaps be plausible if it were to refer to visual uniqueness or salience.
This is based on measures of a referent's prior salience in the discourse and its planned persistence in the next utterance.
Second, diminutives increase the within-gender category similarity and perceptual salience of regular endings, thus facilitating the recognition of morphophonologial gender marking.
One way in which salience works is to help me to really understand someone's need.
The social salience theory may thus seem reminiscent of the "plain meaning" school of statutory interpretation, but there are important differences.
It is important to note that, as with frequency, the criterion of salience can apply to all three dimensions - form, meaning, and use.
