speech pattern


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distinctive manner of oral expression

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Massachusetts colonists, who kept close ties to their home country, also began to adopt this speech pattern. This accent was influenced later by the arrival of Irish, Italian, and other immigrants starting in the 1800s, which created the unique speech patterns peculiar to Massachusetts.
It matters little if the inappropriate speech pattern derives from poverty, rap music, hip hop culture, a dysfunctional ghetto family, or historical speech variations from Africa or the plantation, the problem still needs to be diagnosed as a major language disorder and/or a learning disability so the child can receive the help needed to correct the situation.
Sooner or later voice recognition software will overcome its problems with speech pattern and accent - it really is only a matter of time.
Is the speech pattern a constant stream of words or is speech punctuated by many silences?
5) By using the dominant position of English, make Welsh simpler, standardised, more fashionable , and , as I have demonstrated to Cymdeithas in Caernarfon at several meetings, make it easier to learn for English only speakers by, perhaps using the English speech pattern with Welsh words (perfect grammar at this stage is not a pressing need).
The Goffins speak in a distinctive country-style speech pattern "Goffins be borned eekwill", for example, which irritated me and my little reader and I found the themes of family values and sharing a bit too heavyhanded at times.
The rest of the conversation is then analysed for changes in the speech pattern which could indicate they are lying.
The narration is clearly spoken, with just a touch of the Australian speech pattern, and gripping.
When someone lies, the amount of blood in the vocal cords drops because of stress and this results in a distorted speech pattern, which can't be detected by ear.
Johnson's young voice and speech pattern lend the perfect blend of passive anger and anxiety to this tale of teenaged girls ejected from their safe, comfortable, predictable world into a dark, visionless frontier.
A bizarre speech pattern has him rapidly repeating phrases over and over again.