bilingual speaker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbilingualandspeaker
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bilingual
adjective
uk/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/us/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
able to use two languages ...
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speaker
noun[C]
uk/ˈspiː.kər/us/ˈspiː.kɚ/
a person who gives a speech at a ...
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(Definition ofbilingualandspeakerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In this case, the manager consulted with abilingualspeakerbefore printing out the final version of the notice.
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Accordingly, abilingualspeakerwould have autonomous gender systems for each of his/her languages.
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Such situations are not uncommon, since there may be many cases in which the interlocutor does not know the other language of thebilingualspeaker.
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In other circumstances, such as naming a picture, abilingualspeakeris also potentially faced with the problem of selecting between alternative responses.
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Thus, thebilingualspeakermay be aware of these cor relations and may infer that they are associated with the same grammatical property.
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Why would thebilingualspeakertreat two grammatical properties in different languages as being the same grammatical property?
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It may be the case that the less proficient abilingualspeakeris the greater the interaction between the gender systems.
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One might imagine that an insecurebilingualspeakerwill choose a grammar in terms of context: if the hearer shares context, then a less explicit grammar will work.
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We explored the parallels and distinctions between code-blending and co-speech gesture in order to compare the language production system of monolingual speaker-gesturers with that ofbilingualspeaker-signers.
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What does thebilingualspeakerdo?
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For abilingualspeaker, however, the features associated with those early processes may be crucial to effectively instantiating a language cue and therefore allowing speech planning to become language selective.
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The types of speech errors made by bilingual speakers cast doubt on the assumption that phonological activation is restricted to the target language.
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Up to now we have discussed two views of lexical selection in bilingual speakers as mutually exclusive.
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In bilingual speakers, the hard problem is extensive because virtually every concept is associated with synonymous lexical nodes.
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Processing cost associated with inflectional morphology in bilingual speakers.
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We have for the present excluded some bilingual speakers.
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