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The phrase "amounts of language" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing the quantity or volume of language, such as in linguistic studies or discussions about language acquisition.
Example: "The study focused on the amounts of language children are exposed to during their early development."
Alternatives: "quantities of language" or "volumes of language".
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Mr. Berger, who directed the production, has sliced away significant amounts of language, but the loss will be mourned only by Jacobean fanatics.
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We found that if you gave 5- and 6-year-olds language problems to solve, monolingual and bilingual children knew, pretty much, the same amount of language.
And just absorbing that amount of language - learning to speak it in a way that sounds second nature when you actually perform it, so it sounds as if you, not Shakespeare, are thinking up these images - that is a massive task.
Even with such thin sourcing, Facebook has devoted a surprising amount of language to differentiating the two.
A bilingual questionnaire was used to quantify the amount of language exposure from all adult speakers in the household, and subsequent word production was evaluated in both languages.
Something like this requires a good amount of language processing, allowing Niles to answer a question without you having to ask it in a pre-set concrete way.
That ability can be reactivated with the proper amount of language input right up until puberty, a stage linguists refer to as the critical period.
Behavioral studies in infants indicate that a considerable amount of language learning already takes place in the first year of life in the domains of phonology, prosody, and word segmentation.
It is a little microphone babies wear on their clothes to record the amount of language spoken to them.
A specific amount of language -- a threshold -- should be heard by the baby each and every day.
"The small amount of language in the film that's responsible for the R rating is there because it's real," director Lee Hirsch said in a statement.
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