army brat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarmyandbrat
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army
noun
uk/ˈɑː.mi/us/ˈɑːr.mi/
a particular country's ...
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brat
noun[C]
uk/bræt/us/bræt/
informaldisapproving
a child, especially one who ...
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(Definition ofarmyandbratfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofarmy brat
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Data reflect only the responses of thearmybratlistener group.
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Second, specific experience with a given variety also produces effects on speech perception, as demonstrated by the results of the residency comparisons within thearmybratgroup.
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He is anarmybratand has lived all over the country.
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She is anarmybrat; with the man she grew up being a hard-nosed retired army captain (in the comics, he is a general).
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Marc spent much of her childhood traveling around the world as anarmybrat.
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Again, the army brats per formed significantly better than the homebodies overall.
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This clustering pattern is found in the solutions for the army brats for the first sentence and for both listener groups for the novel sentences.
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First, the army brats demonstrated better overall per formance on the dialect categorization task than the homebodies.
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Given that these divisions were made post hoc, the number of army brats in each residency group for each region varied considerably.
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The difference between the perceptual similarity spaces of the army brats and the homebodies lies in the discriminability of the different dialects.
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The army brats did not need to have lived in three different states by any specific age to par ticipate.
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Army brats who had lived in a given region also categorized talkers from that region more accurately than army brats who had not lived there.
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