adult speaker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadultandspeaker
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adult
adjective
uk/ˈæd.ʌlt/us/ˈæd.ʌlt/
grown to full size ...
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speaker
noun[C]
uk/ˈspiː.kər/us/ˈspiː.kɚ/
a person who gives a speech at a ...
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(Definition ofadultandspeakerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We also extracted offers in the guise of repairs to a child's term made by theadultspeaker.
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In each case, theadultspeakerhas offered pragmatic directions about the new words, and the relation between them.
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We argued that reliable analyses require a comparison with a control sample, such as that from anadultspeaker.
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Finally, on a few occasions, the children simply changed the topic, apparently ignoring the new term theadultspeakerhad just offered.
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The input signal is the speech signal heard by the child, usually assumed to come from anadultspeaker.
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But grammatical conservatism is incompatible with the observation that children's grammars differ in qualitative ways from those of adult speakers of the local language.
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Early on, adult speakers rely on direct offers when introducing children to terms for new objects or, less often, for new activities.
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Adult speakers constantly offer young children new terms, conventional words for the events and objects being talked about.
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The requesting or questioning nature of these utterances was evident only in the rising intonation used by the adult speakers.
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Stage 1: characterized by rudimentary levelling of variants towards an interdialect; takes place among adult speakers.
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The stimuli were piloted on several adult speakers from a variety of dialectal backgrounds, and modified accordingly.
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Like adults, the children self-corrected in phonological, grammatical and semantic domains as did adult speakers and lexical revisions were the predominant type (40%).
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For adult speakers the task required production of subjunctive relatives.
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These findings suggest that adult speakers adjust their articulation on the basis of the semantic predictability present in a single sentence.
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Perspective-taking, marked by choice of linguistic expression, is a pervasive feature of communication among adult speakers.
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We also know that adult speakers generally can switch freely between all their grammars/languages.
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Phonological representation for adult speakers is generally assumed to include sub-lexical information at the level of the phoneme.
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Studies of adult speakers are mixed about the effects of utterance length on intonation production.
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At times, though, adult speakers make corrections to inappropriate terms that have been proposed by their children.
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