Sentence examples for language decline from inspiring English sources
The fact that it was not their homeland and shared by Pakana people of many differing language groups also exacerbated language decline.
"This is the first really solid statistical study I've seen which shows principles about language decline that we've know about, but hadn't been able to put together in a sound way," says Leanne Hinton, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Language decline rarely seems urgent.
The example of Quebec French demonstrates that language decline can be slowed by strategies such as policy-making, education and advertising, in essence increasing an endangered language's status.
Over the next year, the family noticed language decline with word-finding difficulties; his speech was slow and had prolonged response latency.
About half of cases present with behavioural change (behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia), and the remainder present with language decline (primary progressive aphasia) characterised either by impaired speech production (progressive non-fluent aphasia) or by impaired word comprehension and semantic memory (that is, memory for meaning) (semantic dementia).
Use of the spoken language declined from the 9th century until the 18th century.
In South Africa it helped shape national policy which encourages school-leavers fluent in sign language to teach deaf students.Come again?The irony is that, even as sign language declines among deaf people, it is attracting new adherents among the hearing.
Mark Strand, a poet known for his chiseled language, declined because, as he said in an e-mail message, he revises constantly, sometimes going through as many as 50 drafts of a poem.
Because of their ages (about a third are over 55) and linguistic isolation (the number of people speaking Italian as their main language declined by 20percentt in the past seven years), Italians have needs that tend to be different from those of other immigrant groups, which have continued to grow.
A widely held notion posits that the ability to learn a language declines between childhood and young adulthood [1] [6].
