everyday speech
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeverydayandspeech
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everyday
adjective
uk/ˈev.ri.deɪ/us/ˈev.ri.deɪ/
ordinary, typical, ...
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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 ofeverydayandspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The construction, however, does not seem to be part ofeverydayspeechbut to be restricted to learned registers.
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This social group extends the use of dialect from more prototypicaleverydayspeechto less prototypical contexts.
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The creativity ofeverydayspeechis less widely recognized than creativity in the written medium.
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The same point applies to other contexts, too, includingeverydayspeech.
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One commonsense assumption is that the amount of vocabulary learners need foreverydayspeechis rather less than that for dealing with the written language.
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The language of younger children is more uniform than that of older language users, since they are exposed mostly toeverydayspeech.
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The "heard" tokens fromeverydayspeechand television were not tape-recorded, but the hlonipha experiments were.
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This may indicate the benefits of hearing accurate verb inflections used in complete sentences, compared to grammatically less accurateeverydayspeech.
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The stimulus words are often basic words that are preferentially used ineverydayspeech.
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Yet this is a characteristic of all science - 'mass' in physics and 'cell' in biology do not have the meanings they have ineverydayspeech.
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This task tested whether children were able to identify a target phoneme when it was presented to them, even if they did not produce it ineverydayspeech.
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Oureverydayspeechneeds no pushing to slur words - we naturally slur our pronunciation even when it is taken from the most formal of pronunciation guides.
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In vocabulary, there are tens of thousands of words used ineverydayspeech(active vocabulary), and thousands more which are understood but not used (passive vocabulary).
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In other words, is a degree of stereotyping inevitable as creative writers seek to impose some order on the multifarious utterances that speakers are capable of ineverydayspeech?
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We use such expressions in oureverydayspeech.
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Almost everyone has heard of those practices: quality circles and just-in-time delivery are already part ofeverydayspeech.
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