When a specific allophone ( from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme ) must be selected in a given context ( i. e. using a different allophone for a phoneme will cause confusion or make the speaker sound non-native ), the allophones are said to be complementary ( i. e. the allophones complement each other, and one is not used in a situation where the usage of another is standard ).

When intervals between fires drop below 10 to 15 years, many chaparral species are eliminated and the system is typically replaced by non-native, invasive, weedy grassland.

When the term " bubble bath " is encountered on the Internet referring to a gas-infused bath or pool, it is more often by a non-native user of English who may not be aware of its use to refer to foam baths ( see below ).

When speaking Mongolian, speakers will typically use the words for " front ", " back ", " left ", and " right " to mean " south ", " north ", " east ", and " west ", respectively.

When the Mandarin group is taken as one language, as is often done in academic literature, it has more native speakers ( nearly a billion ) than any other language.

When using a natural language to communicate with other people, human authors and speakers can be ambiguous and make small errors, and still expect their intent to be understood.

When Kreisel's business partner, Jonas Miller, who owned a high-end audio store in Los Angeles, told Kreisel that some purchasers of the store's high-end electrostatic speakers had complained about a lack of bass response in the electrostatics, Kreisel designed a powered woofer that would reproduce only those frequencies that were too low for the electrostatic speakers to convey.

When reading old Russian documents, it is necessary to keep in mind that the term Samoyed ' was often applied indiscriminately to different peoples of Northern Siberia who speak related Uralic languages: Nenets, Nganasans, Enets, Selkups ( speakers of Samoyedic languages ).

When individuals from the Palatinate region of Germany encounter Pennsylvania German speakers today, conversation is often possible to a limited degree.

When the sounds from two speakers mix, they create the phase difference the brain uses to locate direction.

When used for live performances, the signal produced by the mixer will usually be sent directly to an amplifier, unless that particular mixer is " powered " or it is being connected to powered speakers.

When expressing possibility, English speakers often use potentially pleonastic expressions such as: It may be possible or maybe it's possible, where both terms ( verb may / adverb maybe and adjective possible ) have the same meaning under certain constructions.

When the action kicks in, it arrives with a sonic punch from 5. 1 speakers.

When there is no clear, unmarked language choice, speakers practice code-switching to explore possible language choices.

When asked to record time and temperature messages for the Australian phone company, she perfected an Australian accent by listening to recordings of Australian speakers.

* When a long vowel is followed by " r ", some speakers of Indian English usually use a monophthong, instead of the diphthong used for many such words in many other accents.

When a group defines a standard pronunciation, speakers who deviate from it are often said to " speak with an accent ".

When new students came to work with Washoe, she would slow down her rate of signing for novice speakers of sign language, which had a humbling effect on many of them.

When the bill was debated in the Senate, speakers from both major parties indicated their opposition to it, although there was no formal vote taken.

When in 1975 dialect folk and rock bands such as Normaal and Boh Foi Toch became successful with their overt disapproval of what they experienced as " misplaced Dutch snobbery " and the western Dutch contempt for ( speakers of ) Low Saxon dialects, they quickly gained an enormous following among the more rurally oriented inhabitants of the Netherlands, launching Low Saxon as a vibrant sub-culture, which is very lively up until today.

When the relevant unit or structure of both languages is the same, linguistic interference can result in correct language production called positive transfer — " correct " meaning in line with most native speakers ' notions of acceptability.

When a visitor puts their head inside the crown, sensors activate a recorded playback of his " There She Is ..." line through speakers hidden behind nearby bushes.

When addressing older people or hierarchical superiors, modern BP speakers often replace ' você '/ tu and ' vocês ' by the expressions O ( s ) senhor ( es ) and A ( s ) senhora ( s ), which also require third-person verb forms and third-person reflexive / possessive pronouns ( or the expressions " de vocês " " do senhor " etc ... by the possessive ).

When she first joins the class she can barely speak English, and needs Ali to translate her Urdu, but by series 3, she has become one of the better English speakers.

When speakers demanded that the Congress go on record against the confinement of dissidents in psychiatric hospitals, the Soviet delegation and Snezhnevsky instantly walked out.

When talking to people from other regions or countries, African French speakers often switch to a more standard form of French avoiding this local vocabulary.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

When I speak of how Shann felt, I know well.

When Alexander Brandel rose to speak, the hall became silent.

When it was clear that continuing the resistance was of little use, Hasan Ali Shah sent one of his brothers to Shiraz in order to speak to the governor of Fars to intervene on his behalf and arrange for safe passage out of Kerman.

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

When Westerners speak of Chinese food, they usually refer to Cantonese cuisine.

When Sancho learned that Alfonso was planning on overthrowing him in order to gain his territory, Sancho sent Cid to bring Alfonso back so that Sancho could speak to him.

*" It Takes an Enormous Amount of Courage to Speak the Truth When No One Else is Out There " -- World-Renowned Holocaust, Israel Scholars Defend DePaul Professor Norman Finkelstein as He Fights for Tenure ( Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim speak in support of Norman Finkelstein's scholarship and " The Holocaust Industry " specifically.

When baby boomers entered the workforce, the economy did not generate jobs fast enough and hundreds of thousands emigrated to the more industrialized Sweden, migration peaking in 1969 and 1970 ( today 4. 7 percent of Swedes speak Finnish ).

When Beethoven was finished studying with Albrechtsberger he decided to get a few more tips and pointers, so to speak, from Haydn.

When Dole declined an invitation to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he suggested Kemp as a substitute even before Kemp had become the Vice Presidential nominee.

When Beria finally realized what was happening and plaintively appealed to Malenkov to speak for him, his old friend and crony silently hung his head and refused to meet his gaze.

When, for example, television producers " pre-interview " participants in news and public affairs programs, to insure that they will speak in simple, attention-grabbing terms, and when the search for viewers leads to an emphasis on the sensational and the spectacular, people with complex or nuanced views are not allowed a hearing.

When I speak that Word, I shall lay the foundation for that which is to take place during the next seven hundred years.

In the statement Baba proclaimed himself " one with the infinite source of everything ," and declared his intention to break his silence: " When I speak, my original message will be delivered to the world and it will have to be accepted ".

When they speak, tongues of fire come from their mouths.

" David Gordon notes, " When most people speak of natural law, what they have in mind is the contention that morality can be derived from human nature.

Thus, personal involvement is linked with public opinion Proverbs that speak to the political disgruntlement include: “ When the Czar spits into the soup dish, it fairly bursts with pride ”; “ If the Czar be a rhymester, woe be to the poets ”; and “ The hen of the Czarina herself does not lay swan ’ s eggs .” While none of these proverbs state directly, “ I hate the Czar and detest my situation ” ( which would have been incredibly dangerous ), they do get their points across.

When Singer attempted to speak during a lecture at Saarbrücken, he was interrupted by a group of protesters including advocates for the disabled.

When we want to speak, we formulate what we are going to say in Wernicke ’ s area, which then transmits our plan of speech to Broca ’ s area, where the plan of speech is carried out.

When the APA invited gay activists to speak to the group in 1972, activists brought John E. Fryer, a gay psychiatrist who wore a mask, because he felt his practice was in danger.

When electrification came, Americans began to speak of trolleycars or later, trolleys, believed to derive from the troller, a four-wheeled device that was dragged along dual overhead wires by a cable that connected the troller to the top of the car and collected electrical power from the overhead wires, sometimes simply strung, sometimes on a catenary.

When we speak of a function being continuous on an interval, we mean only that it is continuous at each point of the interval.