Spoken language is in itself a serial data type: it must be consumed in time from front to back.
But they seem decidedly less cool next to gadgets that can read human movements and understand our spoken language.
Another legacy of primary education's origins is the relatively low emphasis given to the spoken language, compared to reading and writing.
While the plot doesn't quite build to the climax one might hope for, a lovely boisterousness and joy in spoken language carry it through.
Reading and writing problems appear to develop in deaf people because sign languages are not phonemic in the sense that a spoken language is.
"Our tools will enable touch-tone developers to change into spoken language developers, " said Rick Barchard, director of marketing for Unysis Natural Language, in Malvern, Pa.
Oi is hi in Portuguese, which is the 10th most-spoken language.
Hence, the deaf never get a true sense of the phonemic structure of spoken language: they have no sounds in their heads that can represent the written letters.
The remedy for Valley Girl Talk is to drop the voice at the end of sentences in spoken language, at the ends of phrases thus parsing the logic of the phrases.
This symbolic system of notation also has shown scholars how writing first developed to provide a permanent record of information rather than as a way to set down spoken language.
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He was in the military before declaring independence for south-eastern Nigeria, where Igbo is the most widely spoken language, following the slaughter of thousands of ethnic Igbos in northern Nigeria.
Even the soft-spoken language manuals are agents of tyranny.
Not only are higher frequencies responsible for the crispness of sound and for being able to cut through background noise, but the comprehension of spoken language relies heavily on vowel sounds in these higher registers.
For spoken language interpreting, interpreters often join ATA as well as specialized associations, such as the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators for court interpreting, and the International Medical Interpreters Association for healthcare interpreting.
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Estelle Irizarry, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, has analyzed the language and syntax of hundreds of handwritten letters, diaries and documents of Columbus and concluded that the explorer's primary written and spoken language was Castilian Spanish.
And though paleoanthropologists are coming around to the view that Neanderthals developed sophisticated ways to communicate, including some form of spoken language, they may have lacked the rich vocabulary or symbolic structure we take for granted today.
Somali is a close second to English as the most-spoken first language in Moss Side schools.
The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.
Only Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and English the world's most widely spoken second language have the sheer numbers of speakers to make it probable that they will survive for at least the next 300 years.
One group, InterpretAmerica, holds an annual summit for both spoken and signed language interpreters.
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Spanish is by far the most popular non-English language spoken at home with roughly 34 million speakers nationwide.
To ensure their victims were Christians, the jihadists addressed them in Fulani, the language spoken by local Muslims.
For most of them, it was the first time they had heard their language spoken by another human being.
Ray, who won the Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1992, made films in Bengali, a language spoken in eastern India.
Citizens of a free Georgia, Laura and I were in the neighborhood and we thought we'd swing by and say (foreign language spoken).
As for Jeju, it is a critically endangered language spoken by no more than 10, 000 people on Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea.
Some focus on phonetic search or various other voice indexing technologies whose accuracy rate depends on the quality of the line recording, the language spoken and the dialect.
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There have been movements for land rights and formation of states on the basis of language spoken by its people and against deforestation and commercial forestry in Himalayas and big dams.
Even after the Arab conquest, Persian remained the language of local rulers, as Iranian administrators, mullahs and traders settled in the cities of Transoxania (which covered much of today's Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan), and is the basis of the language spoken by the Tajiks today.
By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.
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