spoken language
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspokenandlanguage
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spoken
verb
uk/ˈspəʊ.kən/us/ˈspoʊ.kən/
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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 ofspokenandlanguagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A further related issue is that of contact with the majority,spokenlanguage.
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Chapter five is less of a survey than the previous chapters, and instead the authors present their approach to tackling dysfluencies inspokenlanguage.
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Enter this book, which can be seen as a very accessible account of a mainly rule-based system for translatingspokenlanguage.
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Babies born with hearing are immersed inspokenlanguagefrom birth and even before.
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Dysfunction ofspokenlanguagecan have a variety of causes.
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For many aspects ofspokenlanguage, however, it is necessary to suppress one language in order to speak the other.
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Not all phenomena described in the (prescriptivist) literature appear to be present in actualspokenlanguage.
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French is an example of a language where the orthography provides more morphological information than is available in thespokenlanguage.
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When children learn to read, characteristics of thespokenlanguageinteract with characteristics of the orthography.
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The other innovation was the inclusion of thespokenlanguagein the assessment.
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These very informal expressions are more common inspokenlanguage.
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However, our knowledge concerningspokenlanguagehas indeed changed, mainly through developments in spoken corpus linguistics.
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In particular, he emphasizes the idea that reading in every language involves learning how the writing system corresponds to thespokenlanguage.
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Even literate speakers have very little idea of the syntactic structures ofspokenlanguage, except for plannedspokenlanguagethat employs constructions typical of writing.
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It is true thatspokenlanguageevolved first, is acquired first, and can be considered the foundation for other linguistic skills.
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In a collaborative conversational interface, the user and the machine engage in a conversation couched in naturalspokenlanguage.
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Spokenlanguagefigures significantly only in the last two papers, and then on the basis of transcripts, not digitally sampled speech itself.
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