Sentence examples for nonnative language from inspiring English sources

Can speak fluently using intonation to enhance communication, with only occasional hesitation, giving an overall sense of natural nonnative language.

A little exposure to a nonnative language allows infants to retain their verbal flexibility longer, so a team led by infant researchers Olivier Pascalis of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and Charles Nelson at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis wondered if the same applied to face recognition.

Second, if a tonal language is acquired as a nonnative language do the same regional brain differences emerge?

The bilinguals (n = 31) spoke English as a nonnative language but were all resident in the UK with high English proficiency.

By including multiple groups, and only testing in a single language context, we were also able to control for differences between native versus nonnative language.

There are 2 reasons why we expected activation to be higher in bilinguals compared with monolinguals during picture naming and reading aloud in a native or nonnative language.

This infant dependency on prosodic cues is not only the case with acquiring a native language but is also equally valid for acquiring nonnative languages.

In California, the bellwether for all things pertaining to illegal immigration, large numbers of U.S.-born Hispanic students continue to be classified as nonnative "English language learners" through much of their school years, even though they speak English, because their academic and linguistic skills are so deficient.

A software for computer-aided language learning needs to be able to cope with nonnative speech.

This is mainly due to the large number of nonnative accents and to the fact that nonnative speech data available for training are generally insufficient.

On the other hand, learning a nonnative, or second, language (L2) is not always as easy as acquiring L1.