Sentence examples for Competent speaker from inspiring English sources

She has a reputation as a competent speaker and media performer but has occasionally made gaffes.

Mr Gore is clever; he is obsessively diligent; he is a competent speaker, if a bit stiff.

According to Saussure, any language is structured in the sense that its elements are interrelated in nonarbitrary, regular, rule-bound ways; a competent speaker of the language largely follows these rules without being aware of doing so.

He may play up his loyalty to the trade unions, but the truth is that businesses contribute far more to his campaign coffers than unions ever will.Mr Gephardt is clever; he is obsessively diligent; he is a competent speaker, if a bit stiff.

For instance, Crispin Wright and Stewart Shapiro say a competent speaker can faultlessly classify the borderline case as a positive instance while another competent speaker can faultlessly classify the case as a negative instance.

If "good" were synonymous with some naturalistic predicate "X", then this would be obvious on reflection to every competent speaker.

This is more than the 100 "competent speakers" of Manx (spoken on the Isle of Man) but fewer than the 1,700 speakers of Jerriais (spoken in Jersey).

among lexical items as currently used by competent speakers.

The audience recognizes that other competent speakers could describe the borderline case differently.

Competent speakers can understand a complex expression that they never encountered before.

According to Ryle, competent speakers of language are to a philosopher what an ordinary villager is to a mapmaker.