spontaneous conversation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspontaneousandconversation
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spontaneous
adjective
uk/spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/us/spɑːnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without ...
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conversation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːn.vɚˈseɪ.ʃən/
(a) talk between two or more people in which thoughts, feelings, and ideas are expressed, questions are asked and answered, or news and information ...
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(Definition ofspontaneousandconversationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, rather than a brief conversation with an unknown experimenter, a more appropriate baseline would be a lively,spontaneousconversationbetween the parents.
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Note that these switches correspond to greater distance between mentions, and interaction with the interlocutor, namely, to features typical ofspontaneousconversationbetween friends.
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Chapters 2 and 3 extend this discussion through research on thespontaneousconversationof particular social groups.
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We tested these hypotheses with extensive data drawn from adult and child repeats inspontaneousconversation.
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The present study does not attempt to measure bilingual proficiency but rather focuses on bilingual language preference inspontaneousconversation.
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What is the relationship between the production of nonstandard forms inspontaneousconversationand listeners' perceptions of dialect usage?
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Silva's data are based on aspontaneousconversation, so that there are just not enough repetitions of a single word to allow for meaningful generalisations about single words.
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As in other research that the target article rightly criticizes, lexigrams may be suitable for testing fashionable theories about "ape language" but they preventspontaneousconversation.
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Its strength is that it has rescued that endangered species, genuinelyspontaneousconversation, and presented it absolutely without frills.
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Each speaker is recorded in various speech situations (reading out loud of texts and wordlists, guided conversation,spontaneousconversation).
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My analyses draw on longitudinal records of children's spontaneous conversations with adults, and the offers of new words the adults make to the children.
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He did try to record such spontaneous conversations in the form of face-to-face interviews, but he found that the resulting discourse was frequently interrupted and broken.
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