Sentence examples for monolingual language from inspiring English sources

In the monolingual language mode, a bilingual person partially deactivates one language, whereas in the bilingual language mode, a base language is chosen, the other language is activated and called on in the form of code-switches and borrowings.

Using an innovative brain imaging technology, functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), we investigated how adult bilinguals process semantic information, both in speech and in print, in a monolingual language context (one language at a time) or in a bilingual language context (two languages in rapid alternation).

This interpretation is supported by monolingual language acquisition research.

Although the observations made on the basis of the present corpus analysis are small in number, the implications of these observations are far-reaching, and may compel some researchers of bilingual (and monolingual) language processing to explore alternative accounts of lexical retrieval (e.g., Meara, 2006).

For now, Russia protects language rights; it is former Soviet states, like Latvia and Estonia, that have created monolingual language-discrimination policies, which are aimed mostly against ethnic Russians.

The long term measures include the forced transfer of young Uyghur women to eastern China while encouraging mass Han Chinese migration into the region, the demolition of Uyghur cultural heritage in Kashgar, a monolingual language-planning policy, discriminatory hiring practices, and curbs on freedom of religion.

Even for monolingual systems, language recognition (LRE) is necessary for out-of-language (OOL) detection [1, 2] to filter out segments of non-target languages.

Consequently, the frequency of a word in each of the bilingual's languages effectively lags behind the frequency of the same word in a monolingual's language.

The results indicate that among Indigenous males, those who are Bilingual have monthly earnings that are on average 30% higher than Monolingual-Indigenous language and those who are Monolingual-Spanish have monthly earnings that are on average 45% higher than Monolingual-Indigenous.

Second, the reduced frequency hypothesis proposes that words in each of a bilingual's languages are effectively used less than the same words in a monolingual speaker's language because monolinguals always use the same language to express themselves whereas bilinguals split their time between 2 or more languages.

Middle-class children outperformed working-class children on all measures, and bilingual children obtained lower scores than monolingual children on language tests but higher scores than monolingual children on the executive functioning tasks.