limited vocabulary
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflimitedandvocabulary
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limited
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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vocabulary
noun
uk/vəˈkæb.jə.lər.i/us/voʊˈkæb.jə.ler.i/
all the words known and used by a ...
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(Definition oflimitedandvocabularyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The selection criteria are suitable for symbolic reasoning and alimitedvocabulary.
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Today's architects are trained to use alimitedvocabularyof simple forms, materials, and surfaces.
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Thelimitedvocabularyof young readers may have a greater influence on reading comprehension than the mode of text input.
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It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to produce anything interesting and intellectually challenging with such alimitedvocabulary.
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Thus, we can conclude that the restricted nature of the child's speech cannot be attributed to sampling constraints or to alimitedvocabularyof wh-words and auxiliaries.
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The first, the word familiarity hypothesis, posits that the difficulty posed by certain connectives might be caused bylimitedvocabularyknowledge.
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The protoverb do is used with a wide range of meanings that the child is otherwise incapable of expressing with other lexical means due to alimitedvocabulary.
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Thus, memory was related to verbal ability at the time of encoding but it was not dependent upon it; children withlimitedvocabularydemonstrated memory for the events, nonverbally.
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In other words, with alimitedvocabulary, children might overextend simply to cover gaps in their lexical knowledge.
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It is not entirely surprising to find that children with syntactic difficulties tend to havelimitedvocabulary.
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What a pity some people have such alimitedvocabulary.
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They both have alimitedvocabularyon rubbish.
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I will try to describe, in thelimitedvocabularyat my command, what happened to me personally.
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It means a verylimitedvocabulary.
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Working with a prefabricated rental tent structure forced them to be inventive with alimitedvocabulary.
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Some orcs have alimitedvocabularyin goblin, hobgoblin, and ogre dialects.
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She is kind, even though she has a verylimitedvocabularyand little ability to learn.
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Thelimitedvocabularywas typically a few thousand different variations of phrases.
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In some recent studies, children had a severelylimitedvocabularyor were still nonverbal at 23 years of age.
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