The phrase "ambient language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about language acquisition, linguistics, or the context in which language is present in an environment.
Example: "Children learn to speak by being immersed in ambient language, which surrounds them in their daily lives."
Alternatives: "surrounding language" or "contextual language".
As such, they pose a peculiar problem for infant language learners: These variants occur in the ambient language, but they are not used to encode lexical contrasts.
Together, the results of these studies suggest that stress information in the ambient language not only shapes how statistics are calculated over the speech input, but that it is also encoded in the representations of parsed speech sequences.
In doing so, listeners do not, however, prefer words that are more frequently heard in the ambient language over alternatives that are less frequent.
A more plausible explanation for our results at Time 1 is that they reflect children's sensitivity to the acoustic properties in their ambient language.
During this time, infants become tuned to their native language and the distribution of phonetic information in the ambient language at the expense of discriminating nonnative contrasts.
If the child is exposed to several individuals, he or she uses convergence mechanisms to calibrate the system and ends up with finely tuned representations of the faces in the environment as well as detailed representations of the phonemes and prosodic patterns in the ambient language(s).
In sum, this study revealed that (a) language experience facilitates the development of phonemic categorization, for both monolingual and sequential bilingual children, and (b) children are initially sensitive to the ambient speech input, but with language experience, are able to acquire new phonemic categories.
Moreover, it has been shown that the ability to learn non-adjacent dependencies at this age is modulated by the distributional probabilities in the ambient natural language input [14].
The ambient, street-side language is often unnecessarily coarse.
His music, which has always been unnervingly emotional, full of shifting, ambient textures, doesn't require language to convey joy or pain.
Incredibly, the music careens even more wildly than it did on these former punks' first album, changing rhythms, languages and flavours (ambient, jazz, Zappa) with hallucinatory speed.
