fluent speech
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffluentandspeech
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fluent
adjective
uk/ˈfluː.ənt/us/ˈfluː.ənt/
When a person is fluent, they can speak a language easily, well, ...
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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 offluentandspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffluent speech
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Thus, the words had no real meaning for the infants, they were just familiar sound patterns that infants could recognize influentspeech.
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The lower rate of deletion in faster and lessfluentspeechindicates that deletion is the result of reduction.
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The tendency for lessfluentspeechto inhibit deletion was seen in the behavior of some of the categorical measures of fluency that we tested.
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The production offluentspeechinvolves the rapid generation of utterances, comprising several connected words or sentences.
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But is such a layer necessary for language learners to recognize words influentspeech?
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Another important question about these early abilities concerns how infants are successful in recognizing these words influentspeech.
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Once again, the goal of economy of gestural sequencing is to meet rate and style requirements influentspeech.
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Despite this fine discrimination, listeners are unlikely to be sensitive to such small changes influentspeech.
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Infants' developing competence in understanding and recognizing words influentspeech.
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More frequent presentations may facilitate segmentation of words fromfluentspeechand provide a wider variety of extralinguistic contexts for inferring word meanings.
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The aim is to account for what is recognized by speakers and hearers asfluentspeech, that is speech uninterrupted by hesitations.
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The obvious answer is that they have also learned to rely on other potential cues to word boundaries influentspeech.
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The possibility explored here, and supported by evidence from these experiments, is that perceptual factors make vowelinitial words more difficult to recognize influentspeech.
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Planning variants are thus more likely to be selected to meet the requirements of faster, morefluentspeechor a more casual speech style.
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Given that language comprehension is only possible if a listener has perceived what has been said, a learner has to be able to recognize words influentspeech.
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Fluentspeechrequires, among other things, the selection of the proper lexical items for the intended meaning, and the retrieval of their grammatical properties.
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Regardless of whether they were familiarized with the words spoken in isolation, or influentspeech contexts, the infants displayed recognition of these words.
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Criteria for cocktail party speech includesfluentspeech, an overfamiliar manner, and a tendency to introduce irrelevant personal experiences, use social phrases, fillers, or commit perseverations to a noticeable degree.
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Bortfeld elucidates how the acoustic prominence of motherese helps jump-start infant recognition of words influentspeechstreams, at around 7.5 months of age.
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