Sentence examples for vocabularies from inspiring English sources

There are many different Twitters – black Twitter, feminist Twitter, media Twitter, Weird Twitter – with their own personalities and vocabularies and traditions and arguments, and a conscientious user could and should listen carefully to each before participating.

The words came from dozens of languages, dialects, sub-dialects and specialist vocabularies: from Unst to the Lizard, from Pembrokeshire to Norfolk; from Norn and Old English, Anglo-Romani, Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic, Orcadian, Shetlandic and Doric, and numerous regional versions of English, through to Jérriais, the dialect of Norman still spoken on the island of Jersey.

Indeed, the piece ended with a skittering cadenza rudely terminated by a comic whack from a woodblock.Perhaps Mr Ligeti's stature owes most to this tantalising diversity, his ability to take on the multiple vocabularies of our post-modern epoch and make something coherent of them, without compromising a sense of adventure or his own unerring musical voice.

THE more parents talk to their children, the faster those children's vocabularies grow and the better their intelligence develops.

If Washoe and her successors can learn a complex and arbitrary vocabulary of gestures from people, do they have such vocabularies naturally?

As new words are added to the vocabularies of languages around the world, it looks like the modest but unmistakable effect of the QWERTY keyboard is set to increase.

Predictably this spurred them to read more books and improved their vocabularies.

Some studies (such as this one) seem to show that bilinguals have smaller vocabularies in each language (at early stages) than monolinguals do.

For example, in Dr Fan's and Dr Liberman's experiment the bilingual children had better executive function than the exposure ones, while all three groups had similar vocabularies, fluid intelligence (the ability to reason quickly and think abstractly) and non-verbal visual-spatial skills.

Orthographies and vocabularies are still being standardised by piecing together different spoken dialects.

This would explain why children learn to speak almost effortlessly.The problem with the idea of a language instinct is that languages differ not just in their vocabularies, which are learned, but in their grammatical rules, which are the sort of thing that might be expected to be instinctive.