spoken sentence

collocation in English

meaningsofspokenandsentence

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spoken
verb
uk
/ˈspəʊ.kən/
us
/ˈspoʊ.kən/
past participle ...
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sentence
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.təns/
us
/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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(Definition ofspokenandsentencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspoken sentence

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Infants remember the order of words in aspokensentence.
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From these sentences, the third person selected one formal expression and the two expressions that were the closest in meaning to thespokensentence.
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Similar phonetic fusion processes occur at the juncture of successive words in aspokensentence, but such external sandhi is usually less permanently marked, and seldom indicated in writing.
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Each item consists of a single picture andspokensentence; the child's task is to say "yes" if the picture and sentence match and "no" if they do not.
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Persistence of word order in written andspokensentenceproduction.
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Word order priming in written andspokensentenceproduction.
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Deep structure comprises underlying phonemes and word parts, while surface structure is thespokensentence.
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The stimuli were spoken sentences accompanied by photographs.
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Working memory and comprehension of spoken sentences : investigations of children with reading disorder.
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First, these participants may simply have copied the word order of the spoken sentences, without making an effort to mark the syntactic distinction they presented.
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In the present study the stimuli consisted of spoken sentences presented binaurally (to both ears).
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The caregivers, of course, had no difficulty producing spoken sentences that contained multiple arguments or multiple predicates and did not need gesture to produce constructions of this type.
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Research upon conversation links it to the capacity for long and complex spoken sentences.
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Almost all his spoken sentences begin with the words' ere listen.
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Cued speech helps to relieve speechreading ambiguities; ultimately a combined practice of lipreading and use of cued speech brings greater clarity and accuracy to understanding spoken sentences.
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