Sentence examples for language segments from inspiring English sources

The language segments refer to and expand the meaning of the physical components.

Knowledge about language may involve using metalanguage to name a language segment.

In either case, a language segment may be named with metalanguage, or indicated without naming it.

For aboriginal peoples steeped in oral history traditions, there is "Storytime," English-language segments filmed at the Yukon International Storytelling Festival.

In most languages segments followed by voiced consonants are longer than those followed by voiceless consonants.

In stress-timed languages, segments between stresses have the tendency to undergo substantial changes, with strong effects on segments themselves (e.g. vowel centralisation, devoicing and reduction).

Baidu's $1.1m quarterly profit was tiny compared with its giant rivals, which are pulling in revenue from the more lucrative English-language segment of the web.

In other words, speakers of stress-timed languages segment speech in feet, speakers of syllable-timed languages in syllables, and speakers of mora-timed languages in morae (Cutler et al. 1986; Otake et al. 1993; Mehler et al. 1996).