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(language) communication by word of mouth
he recorded the spoken language of the streets
he uttered harsh language
his speech was garbled
How To Use spoken language In A Sentence
- B.C. 117) is already indicative of the "fossilization" of Chinese writing, Huan K'uan at least in his liberal use of the binome retained touch with the spoken language. Discourses On Salt and Iron
- In 1936 a Polish Anthropologist named Sula Benet discovered that in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament the word "kaneh bosm" had been translated as calamus by the Greeks when they first rendered the Books in the 3rd century B.C., and then propagated as such in all future translations from the Greek as Hebrew ceased to be a spoken language, not again revived until the 1800's. Phelps and Obama-- leading the way Towards legalizing Marijuana.
- Moreover, there is a wide range of phenomena (ranging from anacolutha to disfluencies) which are in fact specific to spoken language only.
- When that happens, it ceases to be a living, spoken language, as happened to Sanskrit.
- Radio and television impose the Cairo-spoken language as the standard dialect of Egypt.
- They developed no spoken language and communicated solely by gestures.
- These traits of spoken language belong to a vulgar household, filled with the clamour of a large family fond of coarse jokes and prone to sentimental effusions.
- The emphasis is very much on learning the spoken language.
- Traditional behavioural formulations have regarded spoken language as the minimal units for any form of analysis.
- In understanding spoken language, lexical access is achieved by using information from the acoustic representation of a word.
