conversational style
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconversationalandstyle
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conversational
adjective
uk/ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃən.əl/us/ˌkɑːn.vɚˈseɪ.ʃən.əl/
relating to or like ...
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style
noun
uk/staɪl/us/staɪl/
a way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, ...
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There are certain factors that trigger the increase in the mothers' overlapping and their use of adultlikeconversationalstylein child-directed speech.
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So speakers may merge in minimal pair lists but still maintain a phonetic distinction inconversationalstyle.
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That is, maternal education could bear onconversationalstyleas well as language outcomes.
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Inconversationalstyle, however, there are exceptions to turnfinal full release, and these are virtually all short-vowel items.
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Howconversationalstylemakes or breaks your relations with others.
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No correlations were found between a directiveconversationalstyleand any input modality.
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Adding maternalconversationalstyleto this model increased overall variance explained to 48 % but suppressed the contribution of social participation.
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Questions were memorized so that interviewers could use a relaxedconversationalstyle.
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Roberts (2005) compares discourse strategies andconversationalstyleof conversations in international settings with conversations where all the participants share a nationality.
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We attributed this null finding to the variation inconversationalstylefound in these caregivers.
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This creates a short delay between the vocal input and synthesised response which facilitates theconversationalstyleof interaction.
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Thus, the present data provided evidence that mothers who talk relatively little need not necessarily be directive in theirconversationalstyle.
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However, the facilitative effect of caregiver input may vary byconversationalstyle.
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An underlying question for this study is whether caregiverconversationalstylevaries in relation to infants' joint engagement state.
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Next, we examined infant engagement in relation to input modality and caregiverconversationalstyle.
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We found that caregivers' use of a child-centeredconversationalstylewas related to their use of talk with and without gesture.
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Focussing onconversationalstyle, the least formal and most relaxed variety, our results provided clear evidence of a sound change in progress.
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There is thus a reciprocal andconversationalstyleto the assessment visit, with both parties appearing to have some control over events.
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