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- not comparablePertaining to or using a single code or language.
Unicodal / monolingual background
1978, Language in Society in West Africa, page 1154 more examples
As there are three lists to a set, the number of words recalled is some fraction of 150 for the unilingual, unicodal, and mixed sets.
1968, Richard Charles Oldfield, John C. Marshall, J. C. Marshall, John Crook Marshall, editors, Language: Selected Readings, Penguin Books, page 173Recall for the unicodal and unilingual lists was similar, but recall for the mixed code list (red or black) was only half that of the mixed language list.
1969, Harold J. Vetter, Language Behavior and Communication: An Introduction, Itasca, Ill.: F. E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., page 95Edward (Claassen, 1992) allows for three types of referring expressions concerning the objects of a file system: pointing gestures, unicodal referring expressions (e.g., selecting an adequate pronoun), and multicodal referring expressions.
1999, Susanne van Mulken, “User Characteristics in Current Presentation Systems”, in User Modeling for Multimedia Interfaces: Studies in Text and Graphics Understanding, Deutsche Universitäts-Verlag, →ISBN, section 5 (Generation of Referring Expressions), page 47Note, however, that active language use need not be unicodal. Bilingual children often and naturally switch between their codes or mix them.
2022, Annika Pasanen, Johanna Laakso, Anneli Sarhimaa, “The Uralic minorities: Endangerment and revitalization”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages (Oxford Guides to the World’s Languages), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 73
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