Speech community

"Speech community" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The phonetic laws always work without the consciousness of the speech community in which they act ; they are due wholly to physiological causes acting unknown to the will of the individual speaker.

Another language of this group, Cantonese, probably ranks among the world's largest speech-communities.

Research indicates that men and women in the mainstream US culture tend to form separate speech communities.

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