Sentence examples for language over a from inspiring English sources

Synchronic linguistics is contrasted with diachronic linguistics (or historical linguistics), the study of a language over a period of time.

And though Ms. Chavez has been at odds with Hispanic organizations because of her views on affirmative action and bilingual education, she once resigned as head of a group that wanted to make English the nation's official language, over a memorandum she thought showed bias against Hispanics.

He taught a robot named Toko the names of objects using video and language as complimentary feedback loops, and put his own family under video surveillance to capture how his son learned language over a period of 36 months.

Smiling, fresh haircut, wearing a clean gray shirt, Jun is chatting with me in Shakespeare's language over a coffee.

It's difficult to convey 1) tone, 2) context, or 3) body language over a text message and it's through those three forms of communication that we primarily interact.

They also prefer their mother's language over a different language they never heard before [62] [64] and sentences from both languages of bilingual women were found to be more reinforcing for their infants than a non-maternal language [64].

Learning Spanish, Lewis's first non-native language, took over a year but subsequent languages, even the basics of conversational Mandarin, were quicker.

To study the effect of age at implantation and duration of implant use on the performance of spoken word recognition of paediatric cochlear implantees in a tonal language setting over a period of 5 years.

"There were some people speaking a foreign language over there a little earlier, but it wasn't French, he said".

But Mr. Unz and other proponents say that weaning children off their native languages over a number of years stunts their overall academic development, leaving them grades behind.

In this second sample of subjects, brain structure was correlated with second language proficiency (over a range of reading, writing, speech comprehension and production tasks) and demonstrated that grey matter density in the posterior supramarginal gyrus was positively correlated with second language proficiency and negatively correlated with age of second language acquisition.