Sentence examples for discriminating language from inspiring English sources

In his Sunday newsletter, the journalist Mike Allen asked if anyone had noticed "the crude, discriminating language and signs used by some to lambaste a president they condemn as crude and discriminating".

He says that any animal with the ability to time and perceive tone should be able to discriminate languages with distinct rhythms.

It is possible to discriminate languages by viewing a speaker's articulatory movements.

Mehler et al. (1996) hypothesized that infants use rhythm to discriminate languages when they are exposed to languages of different rhythmic classes.

The behavioral results indicate that both native and non-native English speakers were able to visually discriminate languages at a level significantly higher than chance.

Nevertheless, both monolingual and bilingual adults are typically able to extract visual cues from their native or non-native languages and discriminate languages visually (Ronquest et al., 2010; Soto-Faroco et al., 2007).

We aimed to determine whether our participants are able to discriminate languages visually and how language background (i.e., English as L1 or L2) influences visual speech perception skills.

Horwitz et al. (1986) documented the complaint of anxious learners who had difficulty discriminating foreign-language sounds and structures, giving the example of an anxious student who indicated hearing only the loud voice of his instructor.

Though language disorders such as dyslexia are quite different concept from speech disorders, in many cases, it is difficult to discriminate a language disorder from a speech disorder in a specific individual [ 1].

Previous research by her group showed that exposing English-language infants in Seattle to someone speaking to them in Mandarin helped those babies preserve the ability to discriminate Chinese language sounds, but when the same "dose" of Mandarin was delivered by a television program or an audiotape, the babies learned nothing.

The sources of information used to discriminate one language from the others include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and prosody.