He is, well, rather difficult.
Can I have, say, a glass of beer.
They own, I mean rent, a lovely house.
see also auditory feedback, pausingmonitoring^2 n
in teaching, the observing and making assessments of what is happening in
the classroom during learning activities.
monolingualn, adjmonolingualismn
1 a person who knows and uses only one language.
2 a person who has an active knowledge of only one language, though
perhaps a passive knowledge of others.
see also active/passive language knowledge, bilingual, multi-
lingual
monolingual dictionary n
a dictionary in which head words, definitions and examples are given in the
target language.
see bilingual dictionary
monophthongn
a vowel in which there is no appreciable change in quality during a syllable,
as in English /a/ in father. The “long” tense vowels of some languages, such
as French, are monophthongs (e.g. French beau /bo:/, “beautiful”) in
comparison to the comparable English vowel, which exhibits noticeable
diphthongization in its articulation (e.g. boat/ bowt /). This is what is meant
by the statement that French has pure vowels.
see diphthong
monosyllabicadjmonosyllablen
consisting of one syllable, e.g. the English word cow.
see also disyllabic
Montague grammarn
a cover term for the kind of syntactic and semantic work associated with
the philosopher Richard Montague, who argued that theories of meaning
for natural languages and for formal languages (such as logic) should be
based on the same principles, especially the compositionality principle.
For example, the sentences of English are not interpreted directly but are
translated into a categorial grammar, a syntactic counterpart to the expres-
sions of a logical language.
monitoring