spontaneous speech
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspontaneousandspeech
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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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speech
noun
uk/spiːtʃ/us/spiːtʃ/
the ability to talk, the activity of talking, or a piece of ...
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(Definition ofspontaneousandspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofspontaneous speech
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In contrast, inspontaneousspeech, some of the children's third singular -s use reflected commentary on a present action.
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In addition, nine were for thespontaneousspeechsample, while two were for the scientific passage, and one was for the dramatic passage.
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Spontaneousspeechsamples have the advantage of reflecting children's vocabulary use for authentic communicative purposes without children's production being filtered through parental recall.
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Our spontaneous data were too limited to allow us to determine whether the children's knowledge extended to theirspontaneousspeech.
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Coming to grips with lexical richness inspontaneousspeechdata.
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The children's preintervention performance and theirspontaneousspeechsuggest that they had fragmentary knowledge of auxiliaries and inversion.
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This is especially important, because our dialogues involve morespontaneousspeechthan applications such as dictation.
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Fromspontaneousspeechalone it is difficult to tease apart the different components of children's knowledge and determine the role of their cognitive resources.
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This ensures that children'sspontaneousspeechwill always match the language that is spoken by adults, regardless of the value assigned by adult language users.
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This underscores the difficulties in detecting rule acquisition based onspontaneousspeechsamples.
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These constraints may explain in part why there is a dearth of information on thespontaneousspeech of infants and toddlers from low-income families.
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Additional examples were collected from extensive recorded samples ofspontaneousspeech.
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There is some evidence that data fromspontaneousspeechmay overestimate children's abilities.
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Life without the stress- and syllabletiming hypothesis will be more difficult, but it should make possible real advances in the understanding ofspontaneousspeech.
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It is therefore difficult to infer certain structural language production abilities fromspontaneousspeechalone.
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These measures were applied tospontaneousspeechsamples, because much of the previous evidence has been obtained from elicited production tasks.
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Evaluating quantitative measures of grammatical complexity inspontaneousspeechsamples.
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Similarly, the tabulation of forms produced in semantically past contexts inspontaneousspeechrevealed a clear advantage of past-marked over unmarked forms.
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Theirspontaneousspeechhas not yet been the subject of study.
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To determine children's abilities, then, it is necessary to have evidence from bothspontaneousspeechand a variety of experimental tasks.
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