Sentence examples for needs of speakers from inspiring English sources

Now a mathematical model suggests that the reason may be tension between the needs of speakers and listeners.

To linguists, a start of cultivation is a time during which a specific vocabulary is formed in a language to attend to the needs of speakers who cultivate and consume a particular plant.

The same idea can be used to adapt existing models for common speakers to the needs of handicapped speakers.

The lexical content of languages varies, of course, according to the culture and the needs of their speakers.

Language is constantly changing, evolving, and adapting to the needs of its speakers.

The union said services through Welsh were a "human right" and urged the BMA to find ways of meeting the needs of its speakers.

Written texts, even those never intended to be read aloud, are often punctuated according to the needs of a speaker to take breath.

It also sports five separate power channels, so that the needs of one speaker (say, the bright squeal of Jean-Claude Van Damme being run over by a truck on the left front) don't sap the power supply to the other speakers {those playing the roar of cheering crowds, for example}.

We tentatively propose that the level of morphological specification is a product of languages adapting to the learning constraints and the unique communicative needs of the speaker population.

Almost 20 years ago, according to the OIG, the Directorate of Intelligence — the division in which analysts work — identified a critical need for speakers of Farsi and other languages.

There are various reasons: Many international relief organizations, while in need of Creole speakers, do not deploy inexperienced volunteers to disaster zones; the many smaller aid groups founded by Haitians abroad lack a unifying organization; and the Haitian government, barely functioning, has offered little help in coordinating would-be volunteers.