spoken language
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- noun
- /ˈspoʊkən ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
- 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
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Watch on YouTubeWritten 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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Talking to share information, often by phone or radio
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To talk to share ideas or information with others
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Sharing ideas and information by speaking to others
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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'.