单词	monolingual
释义	monolingual /mɒnə(ʊ)ˈlɪŋɡw(ə)l / adjective 1(Of a person or society) speaking only one language: monolingual families... Children who acquire more than one language early can develop thinking skills that may elude monolingual children of the same age. She grew up in Soviet Moscow, a supposedly monolingual society, but she remembers noticing and being fascinated by the range of accents and speech patterns she heard. Very few people are now monolingual Welsh speakers, though I have met one or two in rural areas in central and northern Wales. 1.1(Of a text or conversation) written or conducted in only one language: monolingual and bilingual editions... Both monolingual dictionaries and bilingual dictionaries intended for speakers of languages other than English usually indicate the pronunciation of words. Earlier monolingual dictionaries were mainly concerned with ‘hard’ words: the bookish, Latinate, and technical vocabulary of Renaissance English. The market for spellcheckers and monolingual dictionaries would be greatly reduced. noun A person who speaks only one language.In all multilingual communities speakers switch among languages or varieties as monolinguals switch among styles.... On the one hand, the country was encouraging the study of foreign languages for English monolinguals, at great cost and with great inefficiency. Such a mindset sees everything in terms of monolingualism as the norm, even though there are more bilinguals and multilinguals in the world than monolinguals. Derivatives monolingualism /ˌmɒnəʊˈlɪŋɡw(ə)lɪz(ə)m / noun ... Saami women went from monolingualism in Saami to monolingualism in Norwegian in a very short period of time without much of a period of transitional bilingualism. They have learned the difference between bilingualism and monolingualism in a language other than English. Why is this country with its apparent linguistic diversity heading toward monolingualism? monolingually adverb Rhymes bilingual, lingual, multilingual
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