spoken language
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- noun
- /ˈspoʊkən ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
:
lengua hablada
- The fluid nature of spoken language and singing often makes it difficult to distinguish individual words.
- a widely spoken language
- a commonly spoken language
- a spoken language specialist
Written language is moreover, A reduced version of spoken language.
- Written language is moreover, A reduced version of spoken language.
- Having to learn a foreign language involves the dyslexic's weakest area, getting to the sounds of spoken language.
- It's very similar actually to how spoken language works by quickly jumping over small functional words like the off and from etcetera.
- So that one might have guessed really that that they would not be good creatures to learn spoken language.
- Now we humans and a few others are the most advanced for the speech sounds or this or the spoken language.
- That's because I think about computer code as mathematics, not as spoken language code as strict rules and precise definitions.
Examples
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Many people have personally experienced how difficult it is for computers to deal with spoken language.
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In particular, it helps children understand how spoken language is represented by the letters of the alphabet.
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I think that our spoken language is much less formal than our written language.
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After English, Spanish is the most frequently spoken language among participants.
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The oral tradition of telling stories goes back to the beginning of spoken language.
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Across all subject areas, having attended regular secondary schools and having better spoken language were associated with higher test scores.
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Until the Holocaust, Yiddish was the spoken language of two-thirds of the world's Jews.
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The process of putting spoken language into writing is governed by consciously contrived, articulable rules.
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The discursive registers of Byen og Verden are closely related to everyday spoken language.
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Effective communication often relies on spoken language to convey emotions and intentions clearly.
Synonyms
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To talk to share ideas or information with others
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Talking to share information, often by phone or radio
Sharing ideas and information by speaking to others
Talking to share information or ideas
Antonyms
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'spoken' (conveyed verbally) modifies 'language' (a system of communication) to yield 'language expressed through speech'. This simple adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The phrase spoken language comes from the simple idea of using the voice to share words. Imagine people talking around a fire: the sound moves through the air, so spoken, meaning using the voice, and language together mean words we say 'by mouth', not 'in writing'.