monolingual

Examples

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• One could argue that though they have access to two different languages, they have not had similar practice in one language compared with monolinguals. Also, as they progress in their knowledge and use of both languages, one could argue that they have more choices from which to select their output.

  Academic text (2015)

• The frequency of production of the speech behaviors that would typically be considered to be stuttering, like in monolinguals, was higher than the standard 3 per 100 words across the majority of the participants (n = 14), with the mean percentage of stuttering-like speech disfluencies for these individuals ranging from 3% to as high as 22%.

  Academic text (2015)

• If I met a monolingual Dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer, would I stop him from entering my British university?

• If any peoplehood theory ends up excluding a large segment of the people in question (Christians, English-language monolinguals, etc.), that is a problem with the theory and not the people.

  Academic text (2011)

• This intact group consisted of 24 Hispanic students, 12 native speakers of Spanish who were learning English, and 12 who were either English-Spanish bilinguals or English monolinguals.

  Academic text (2002)

• Thus, monolinguals constituted 13 percent of the population, and over half of the Cajun population (54 percent) shared residences with at least one unilingual Francophone.

  Academic text (2000)

• An inherent strength in this model is its applicability to analyzing receptive and expressive language deficits in monolinguals (Ellis & Young, 1988).

  Academic text (2013)

• A monolingual can often face challenges when traveling to countries where they do not speak the local language.

• When interviewing candidates, we found that the monolingual applicant had excellent skills in their native language.

Synonyms

M

monoglot

vsmonolingual

1 8.6

A person who speaks only one language

means the same but is an alternative word form

U

unilingual

vsmonolingual

7.0

A person who speaks only one language

is narrower, applying only to speaking rather than using

Antonyms

P

polyglot

2 7.7

A person who knows and can use several languages

B

bilingual

1 3.8

A person who can speak two languages well

How Multilingual

polyglot

2 7.7

multilingual

7 4.3

trilingual

1 5.3

bilingual

1 3.8

monolingual

5.1

Surface Forms

Etymology