linguistic skill

collocation in English

meaningsoflinguisticandskill

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linguistic
adjective
uk
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
us
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/
us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Anylinguisticskillis a candidate for a metalinguistic counterpart in development.
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The development oflinguisticskillin twins, singletons with siblings, and only children from age five to ten.
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Portuguese language lessons are now mandatory at the younger levels with children taking these classes divided into groups according to theirlinguisticskilllevel.
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His songs describe the little quirks hidden in everyone's everyday life, mixing laconic humour withlinguisticskill.
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Being young language users\\learners, the mastery of primary linguistic skills is imperative for successful communication at the onset of language development.
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A strict interpretation of the central processing viewpoint is that measures of cognitive/ linguistic skills should predict literacy no matter what the language of assessment.
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It has shown important effects of the living arrangement and their associated patterns of socialisation on the maintenance of cognitive and linguistic skills.
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Hence, they replicated the study but paid careful attention to such factors as children's reading experience and their cognitive and linguistic skills.
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However, the success or failure of a textbook surely relies as much on its pedagogical skills as its historical linguistic skills.
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The story is temporally structured in a set of goal-based events and tests a number of linguistic skills.
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Language loss is a general term applied to any instance of the decline of linguistic skills, whether of individuals or speech communities.
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It is true that spoken language evolved first, is acquired first, and can be considered the foundation for other linguistic skills.
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Speech-motor and linguistic skills of young stutterers prior to onset.
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Screening for the cognitive and linguistic skills that are considered prerequisite to reading acquisition is a first step toward intervention.
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Criteria were applied only to assure that participants possessed the minimum linguistic skills necessary to perform the experimental tasks.
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The second half of the second session and the third session were devoted to testing other linguistic skills that are not reported in this study.
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The findings are surprising, particularly since the benefits revealed by previous studies all involved pragmatic skills, not strict linguistic skills, such as vocabulary size.
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It also enables them to define their linguistic skills and cultural awareness.
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The issue becomes especially thorny when complex linguistic skills are considered.
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