Sentence examples for twin language from inspiring English sources

"They have twin language," Mrs. Dykstra said.

They even have a secret twin language.

They hated to be out of the other's view, had their own twin language.

This paper reviews the evidence on twin language by addressing five key questions:.

In Hindi's case, trauma was palpable in the way it was gradually cleaned up and officialised – in effect, Sanskritised, and rid of many of its Persian elements – after independence, just as its twin language, Urdu, in Pakistan, was Persianised and cleansed of Sanskrit.

She grew up in Portland, Oregon, where she and her twin brother made up a secret twin language called "Spanish".

With the exception of Hayiou-Thomas et al. (2005), the studies in Table 1 identified children on the basis that there had been clinical concern about one or both twins' speech and language development.

For twins aged 8 the difference with non-twins in language and arithmetic reduced to 5% and 2% of a standard deviation and for twins aged 10 and 12 the differences were not statistically significant.

After correcting for such confounding factors as the year of testing, gender, age at the time of the test, and parents' education and ethnicity, twins aged 6 scored 16% of a standard deviation lower than non-twins in language and 17% of a standard deviation lower in arithmetic.

Listening to the tapes, Treharne discovered that the twins' "secret language" was actually a mixture of Barbadian slang and English, spoken very quickly.

The entertainment editor for eurOut.org, a website for European lesbians, wrote that she "almost [felt] like joining in" when Emily cried after breaking up with Naomi, and thought that the twins' secret language was "very cute and adorable".