active vocabulary

When that child learns to speak or sign, however, the child's active vocabulary begins to increase.

Words that are used are part of a person's "active vocabulary".

Her active vocabulary consisted of just two short phrases, "stop it" and "no more".

To make a parallel with linguistics, the focus is placed on an active vocabulary and its syntax.

As with receptive vocabulary, however, there are many degrees at which a particular word may be considered part of an active vocabulary.

Although the authentic language feature implies a high passive vocabulary, the active vocabulary is only 600 words.

My active vocabulary contains probably not more than 500 English words and that's totally enough to express all my feelings and thoughts.

In this case, the child's receptive vocabulary is likely tens, if not hundreds of words but his or her active vocabulary is zero.

The company says the software has an active vocabulary of more than 30,000 words and more than 200,000 more in a backup dictionary.

Aoyagi was still trying to be a swinger, but even a word like that in Kropik's active vocabulary defined what decade he came from.

IBM claims it provides the most accurate speech recognition available, with access to 20,000 words in an active vocabulary, which can be customised to accept additional, more personalised words.

The average active vocabulary of a native english speaker would be between 10,000 to 20,000 words - though some people will have as many as 40,000 words in active use.

Looking at my list, a professional interpreter will probably be able to quickly provide an equivalent in some of their working languages but not others, because our "active vocabulary" cannot be equally active for all working languages at all times.

On the other hand, it is quite common that even very highly accomplished linguists may speak the language(s) of which they are experts with a distinct accent and to have gaps in their active vocabulary when it comes to everyday topics and situations.