monolingual
adjective
knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
monolinguals
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pluralof monolingual.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Functional monolinguals were defined as those who had two years or less of a foreign language experience in a classroom and use only the first language that they learned as a child.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
"Some of the literature says these differences aren't so pronounced, but that could be because of the tasks linguists use to research differences between bilinguals and monolinguals."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
"Remarkably, the bilinguals really divide up the space much more than the monolinguals, in spite of the fact that they're still primarily Tsimane' speakers," Gibson says.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023
Instead of using different parts of the brain, the participants’ brains appeared to use the same basic network as monolinguals to try to make sense of the sounds, regardless of which language they heard.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 3, 2023
Fedorenko’s initial subjects had been English-speaking monolinguals, or bilinguals who also spoke Spanish or Mandarin.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
