Sentence examples for in normal speech from inspiring English sources

The phrase "in normal speech" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to indicate that the following words or sentence are spoken in a conversational or informal manner, as opposed to in a formal or written style. Example: "In normal speech, you would say 'I'm going to the store,' but in formal writing, you would write 'I am going to the store.'".

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Most people cannot hear the pitches of the individual formants in normal speech.

You can tell when a politician is angry; he starts using words you never hear in normal speech.

I never cease to be amazed at the hypocrisy of famous and not so famous people who see themselves as "right on" and yet comfortably use the word retard in normal speech.

This Broadway musical, a firm favourite with buffs of the genre, is set in a Hollywood notion of 1930s Budapest and boasts a tight, witty book by Joe Masteroff and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick that are full of those comic quirks and hypermetrical skids that are present in normal speech but get ironed out in show songs.

Vocal fry, also called Murmur, orBreathy Voice, in phonetics, a speech sound or quality used in some languages, produced by vibrating vocal cords that are less tense than in normal speech, which produces local turbulence in the airstream resulting in a compromise between full voice and whisper.

Maimonides' appeal to negation (GP 1.58) is often misunderstood because in normal speech a double negative usually indicates a positive.

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The results of the control group demonstrated that the standard deviation in WR of "normal" speech in speakers of the same age is about half of the pathologic one.

In this program children learn to identify speech sounds at significantly slower speeds than they occur in normal language.

Postoperative evaluation in 15 of these children showed improvement in articulation in 9, no change in 4 who had normal speech preoperatively, and an ongoing articulation disorder in 2. Parent perception of speech intelligibility on a scale of 1 to 5 improved from 3.4 to 4.2 (P < 0.01).

Some of the languages once had, in addition to normal speech, a set of special registers (speech styles with distinctive vocabulary).

It shows low fundamental frequency, short maximum phonation time, and a different ratio of voiced to voiceless phonation in comparison with normal speech.

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