Factors relating to the intelligibility of the speech of deaf children

This paper reviews a study of the speech intelligibility of deaf children to listeners with normal hearing.

Comparing speech assessments: The usefulness of the DEAP as compared to the GFTA-2

This study seeks to evaluate whether the DEAP, a new speech assessment that assesses vowels in addition to consonants, is as effective with children who are deaf and hard of hearing as an older, more established speech assessment, the GFTA-2.

Interaction and Persuasion:An analysis of the use of rhetorical devices in Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party Conference, on September 25, 2006

This essay has identified and analysed rhetorical devices in Gordon Brown’s speech delivered at the Labour Party conference on September 25, 2006. The aim of the study was to identify specific rhetorical devices which are described as interactional resources, analyse their uses and discuss possible effects that they may have when included in a political speech. The results are based on my own interpretations but are supported by information provided in current literature by analysts and researchers of rhetoric use. The result findings could probably serve as evidence of the need for better understanding of the devices used by politicians in their relentless endeavours to influence audience decisions.

Visual Speech Segmentation: Using Facial Cues to Locate Word Boundaries in Continuous Speech

Speech is typically a multimodal phenomenon, yet few studies have focused on the exclusive contributions of visual cues to language acquisition. To address this gap, we investigated whether visual prosodic information can facilitate speech segmentation. Previous research has demonstrated that language learners can use lexical stress and pitch cues to segment speech and that learners can extract this information from talking faces. Thus, we created an artificial speech stream that contained minimal segmentation cues and paired it with two synchronous facial displays in which visual prosody was either informative or uninformative for identifying word boundaries. Across three familiarisation conditions (audio stream alone, facial streams alone, and paired audiovisual), learning occurred only when the facial displays were informative to word boundaries, suggesting that facial cues can help learners solve the early challenges of language acquisition.

The Hennepin canal. Shall the great northern and eastern water way be extended to the upper Mississippi? Speech ... in the House of representatives ...

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Violations of free speech and rights of labor : digest of report of the Committee on Education and Labor pursuant to S. Res. 246 (74th Congress)

At head of title: 76th Congress, 1st session. Senate committee print.

Application of Burst Processing to the spectral decomposition of speech /

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977.

Helen Keller. Souvenir of the first summer meeting of the American association to promote the teaching of speech to the deaf.

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The phonarthron. Or, Natural system of the sounds of speech: a test of pronunciation for all languages: also, the phonarithmon, and the phonodion. To which is added, a practical application of the phonarthron to English and French pronunciation; and to the reading of Hebrew, &c.

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The new currency bill : a letter to the premier in reply to his Speech on the Bank Charter Act, May 7, 1844 /

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The griper : being a letter to John Harvey, esq. in reply to his ungenerous animadversions, in a public assembly, in the old library room on the 14th of December, on my speech delivered at the weavers' meeting, on the 7th of December, 1829, at the Pantheon, St. Stephen's Norwich ; with many additional remarks, political, and theological, on the present state of our nation ; and on general principles.

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Substance of a speech addressed to the House of Commons, on the 28th April 1814 : on the subject of applying the sinking fund towards any loans raised for the public service.

With this is bound Heathfield, R. Further observations on the practicability and expediency of liquidating the public debt of the United Kingdom. 1820.

Speech of Eli K. Price, of Philadelphia in the senate of Pennsylvania, April 6th and 7th, 1855, on the bill to restrain the sale of intoxicating liquors /

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Speech of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Darnley : on the state of the poor of Ireland : delivered in the House of Lords on Thursday, May 1, 1828, on his Lordship's motion for a select committee to inquire into the distressed state of the people of that country.

Mode of access: Internet.