adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
speech
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It is good for developing fluency and for practising naturalness in connected speech .
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The actual lengths of sounds in connected speech vary greatly.
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Words spoken in connected speech often sound different than when spoken in isolation.
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The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
closely related/connected/associated etc
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Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species.
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However, a further ten shared elements show whales to be closely related to hippopotami.
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It is not isolated but closely connected with contemporary movements.
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Perhaps even more than is usual in the social sciences, theory is closely related to practice.
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Power strategies are closely related to power bases.
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The men are often in the home, doing work closely associated with women in most societies.
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These enormous structures vary with age and are closely related to the dominance of their owners in the hierarchy.
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This is closely related to item 3 above.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a politically connected businessman
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Police are investigating whether the three shootings are connected .
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The two continents were once connected .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is, nevertheless, possible for the application back end to which CLE-I is connected to override this ordering.
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Soot was first connected with cancer by a London doctor in 1774.
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The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech.
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Their tracks met those of the company end on but were not connected .
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Whiter illustrates his point by showing how the conditions of Elizabethan dramatic presentation reinforced the use of certain repeatedly connected images.