vernacular speech

collocation in English

meaningsofvernacularandspeech

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vernacular
adjective
uk
/vəˈnæk.jə.lər/us
/vɚˈnæk.jə.lɚ/
using the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in ...
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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 ofvernacularandspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvernacular speech

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Our approach, usingvernacularspeechand the speech community typology, may provide information on the ongoing diffusion of the standard variety in contemporary communities.
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But at the same time it opens that language up tovernacularspeech.
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The 'world inside' and the 'world outside' are presented in a libretto that contains both poetic and conversational, almostvernacularspeech.
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It wants to open up the national language to the play of figural,vernacularspeech, but at the same time to fix the meaning of words, to make meaning transparent.
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These data were collected mostly in the 1960s of older speakers and hence give us an indication of thevernacularspeechtoward the end of the 19th century.
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The fact that the records were made immediately (and often verbatim) means that these records are about as close as we can get to thevernacularspeechof the time.
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Intervocalic voicing and lenition of final stops are natural phonological processes which no doubt contribute to the spread of these variants in informal styles andvernacularspeech.
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I said that the idea of being sick, very sick or terribly sick had no relevance, which illustrates a difference invernacularspeechand our general attitude.
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The above tendencies are stronger invernacularspeechand less marked in cultivated speech.
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Expert shamans could speak whole sentences differing fromvernacularspeech.
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History, culture, family relationships, religions,vernacularspeech, and all manner of written texts from this fantastic world accumulate and intersect with perfect consistency.
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It is not a written language: the sense that readers get is of a transcription ofvernacularspeech.
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The phrase occurs invernacularspeech, where it is used as an expletive (uttered, for example, in anger or frustration) or else with humorous intent.
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