Sentence examples for native word from inspiring English sources

The native word for this kind of place is chiiviteenlii, or "pointed mountains scattered all around".

Some Indian stations sprinkle their schedules with "Native Word of the Day" from Koahnic.

However, the association between average AoA and native word learning was found only in the attend condition.

Once so abundant in southeastern Jamaica that the coastal area around Kingston was named the Liguanea Plain, the native word for the lizards, the iguana population crashed after the human population doubled in the second half of the 19th century and the Indian mongoose was introduced in 1872.

Still, the effect of AoA on the novel native word response change implies that the learning of non-native languages in later as opposed to early childhood has an effect on how tuned the brain remains to the native language input.

"I was a howlie, the native word for foreigner, and I only wished my skin would tan darker to fit in," he says.

That is, the later the non-native languages were learnt on average, the more the neural response to novel native word-forms increased (Fig. 3).

No such differences were present either between the ignore and attend conditions for the non-native (z = 0.735, p = 0.463) and native word-forms (z = −0.514, p = 0.607), or between the native and non-native word-forms in the ignore (z = −1.159, p = 0.246) and attend (z = 0.354, p = 0.723) conditions.

This confirms that in the models, the associations between language variables and response changes to non-native vs. native word-forms in the attend conditions were dissimilar, i.e. the predictors showed opposite directions of effects, especially in the case of average AoA for which the models provided significant coefficients for the non-native as well as for native word-form dynamics.

In addition, AoA was positively associated with the response increase for novel native word-forms in the attend condition, whereby the later the non-native languages were acquired, the larger was the response increment for novel native words.

The benefit of acquiring multiple non-native languages in childhood thus extends to neural encoding of new words with unfamiliar phonology in adulthood, while, in contrast, earlier acquisition of non-native languages may be costly for the efficiency of rapid memory trace development for new native word-forms.