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Alomary, Shaban. "Conative utterances : a Qur'anic perspective." Thesis, University of Salford, 2011. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26541/.

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Conation is an aspect of mind, alongside cognition and affect. The conative function of communication entails the relationship between the 'message' and the 'receiver'. Based on relevant communication models and sign typologies, this thesis covers exponents of communication, conative function, vocative, interrogative and imperative. Conative utterances refer to language used to move the receiver to thought/ action. The Qur'anic perspective, identified and applied in this thesis, is vital for verbal communication studies as the TM transcends the reductionist tendency of (non-) mechanistic commu

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Joigneau, Axel. "Utterances classifier for chatbots’ intents." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-233362.

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Chatbots are the next big improvement in the era of conversational services. A chatbot is a virtual person who can carry out a conversation with a human about a certain subject, using interactive textual skills. Currently, there are many cloud-based chatbots services that are being developed and improved such as IBM Watson, well known for winning the quiz show “Jeopardy!” in 2011. Chatbots are based on a large amount of structured data. They contains many examples of questions that are associated to a specific intent which represents what the user wants to say. Those associations are currently

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Ling, Yong. "Keyword spotting in continuous speech utterances." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0024/MQ50822.pdf.

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Ling, Yong 1973. "Keyword spotting in continuous speech utterances." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21595.

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The work in this thesis constructed a word spotting system, which managed to spot an amount of pre-defined keywords out of unconstrained running conversational speech utterances. The development and experiments are based on the Credit Card subset of SWITCHBOARD speech corpus. The techniques are applied in the context of a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based Continuous Speech Recognition (CSR) approach to keyword spotting. The word spotting system uses context-dependent acoustic triphone to model both keyword and non-keyword speech utterances. To enhance the true keyword spotting rate, sophisticate

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Lanas, M. (Maija). "Smashing potatoes – challenging student agency as utterances." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2011. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514295874.

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Abstract The research investigates how student agency is inscribed as challenging or as misbehaviour in schools. The purpose is to open up and enable alternative ways of interpreting student agency. The empirical part of the research is based on reflexive ethnography and narrative methodology. The data is comprised of narrative and thematic interviews conducted during a period of 3 years (2006–2009), and 4 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the autumn of 2008. The context for analyzing the meanings inscribed in student agency is a northern Finnish village school. In the villagers’ n

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Forero, Jorge Guillermo. "Rerum : an expert system for counselling utterances." Thesis, University of Reading, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.331979.

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Tsui, Amy Bik-May. "A linguistic description of utterances in conversation." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1986. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7569/.

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This thesis is an attempt to characterize the utterances in conversation. Following the principles of Sinclair & Caulthard (1975), it proposes a descriptive framework which is based on the concepts of 'class', 'structure' and 'system'. Chapter One argues against the position that utterances are multi-functional and the illocutionary forces they carry are largely indeterminate, hence they are not describable in categorial terms. It points out that such a position is a misconception arising from the lack of consistent criteria when characterizing utterances. It then examines studies in three maj

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Peacock, Diane. "Telling utterances : education, creativity & everyday lives." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/52611/.

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Education policy, in practice so singularly an experienced phenomenon, may be irreconcilable to single forms of academic interpretation. The questions and possibilities raised by this proposition animate the core of this study. Why, given the volume of noise generated by the multiplicity of agents and agencies with critical interests in education policy and practice, do some voices dominate while others are unheard or silent? What might this mean for those being educated and for art and design education? Responses, rather than being articulated as a series of arguments in a traditional researc

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Crew, Christopher M. "The time course for structuring complex utterances." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24783.

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Schoener, Robin S. "Nonnative Prosody and the Intelligibility of Ambiguous Utterances." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:24078370.

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This study examines nonnative prosody and intelligibility. Past research has suggested that prosody that is unfamiliar or inappropriate in some way can adversely affect the intelligibility of speech (e.g., Hahn, 2004; Tajima, Port & Dalby, 1997; Grover, Jamieson & Dobrovlosky, 1987; Field, 2005). In this study, the effect of overall prosody rather than the effects of particular prosodic features is analyzed. Fifteen native and 15 nonnative speakers were recorded reading identical sets of ambiguous sentences while viewing cartoon drawings. Cartoons viewed by 8 members of each speaker group p

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Xia, Lu. "FATHERS' LANGUAGE INFLUENCE ON THEIR SIX-MONTH-OLD INFANTS' VOCALIZATION DURING FREE-PLAY." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2142.

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Data for this study were derived from videotapes of 26 father-infant dyads, specifically from a five minute period of free-play. The first step was the creation of a literal transcription of the father-infant dyads interaction. Subsequently, nine variables of fathers' language characteristics and one infant characteristic were coded employing the literal transcriptions and observing the videotapes. The fathers' language variables were number of : (1) father utterances, (2) father words, (3) father contingent responses, (4) father teaching utterances, (5) father descriptive teaching utterances,

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Nakamura, Tsuyoshi, Takeshi Furuhashi, Tomohiro Yoshikawa, Masayoshi Kanoh, and Felix Jimenez. "Effect of robot utterances using onomatopoeia on collaborative learning." IEEE, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/20714.

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FernaÌndez, Rovira Raquel. "Non-sentential utterances in dialogue : classification, resolution and use." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441949.

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Dinarelli, Marco. "Spoken Language Understanding: from Spoken Utterances to Semantic Structures." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/367830.

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In the past two decades there have been several projects on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In the early nineties DARPA ATIS project aimed at providing a natural language interface to a travel information database. Following the ATIS project, DARPA Communicator project aimed at building a spoken dialog system automatically providing information on flights and travel reservation. These two projects defined a first generation of conversational systems. In late nineties ``How may I help you'' project from AT\&T, with Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) and mixed init

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Dinarelli, Marco. "Spoken Language Understanding: from Spoken Utterances to Semantic Structures." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2010. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/280/1/PhD-Thesis-Dinarelli.pdf.

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In the past two decades there have been several projects on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In the early nineties DARPA ATIS project aimed at providing a natural language interface to a travel information database. Following the ATIS project, DARPA Communicator project aimed at building a spoken dialog system automatically providing information on flights and travel reservation. These two projects defined a first generation of conversational systems. In late nineties ``How may I help you'' project from AT\&T, with Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) and mixed

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Mammen, Sanjana S. "Examining the Impact of the SafeCare Parent-Infant Interaction Module on the Quantity and Content of Maternal-Infant Directed Utterances." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/233.

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Abstract Sanjana S. Mammen Examining the SafeCare Parent-Infant Interaction Module’s Impact on the Quantity and Content of Maternal-Infant Directed Utterances (Under the direction of Shannon Self Brown, PhD) Positive parenting skills reduce risk for child maltreatment. The Parent-Infant Interaction (PII) module of SafeCare was designed to promote positive parent-child relationships; however, little research has examined its impact on parent-infant utterances. Past research has indicated that a rich parent-child language environment predicts literacy skills and academic achievement, so the pres

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Tsang, Wai-ying Genee. "The function of maternal utterances to young Hong Kong children." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36209739.

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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 1998.<br>"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, April 30, 1998." Also available in print.

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Gambi, Chiara. "Imagining and anticipating another speaker's utterances in joint language tasks." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9852.

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There is substantial evidence that comprehenders predict language. In addition, dialogue partners seem to predict one another, as shown by well-timed turn-taking and by the fact that they can complete one another’s utterances. However, little is known about the mechanisms that (i) support the ability to form predictions of others’ utterances and (ii) allow such predictions to be integrated with representations of one’s own utterances. I propose (predictive) representations of others’ utterances are computed within a cognitive architecture that makes use of mechanisms routinely used in language

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Lee, Chia-Jung. "Timely utterances : re-reading the Wordsworth of the 1805 Prelude." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/timely-utterances-rereading-the-wordsworth-of-the-1805-prelude(f96d37bd-6f41-4cd2-8f9f-12f761c44428).html.

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My thesis explores how Wordsworth develops his poetic identity in ‘Growth of a Poet’s Mind’ in The Prelude. I argue that Wordsworth’s attempt to stabilize an identity in the mutability of time – in writing – results in a self precariously situated between past and present, speech and silence, for example. This thesis will examine how Wordsworth engages with time and language in his creation of ‘timely utterances’ about the self in The Prelude throughout the process of his writing. The identity Wordsworth seeks to stabilize in writing is not stabilizable because of ‘two consciousnesses’. Howeve

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Leonard, Glen Stewart. "'The last utterances of the civilized' : E.M. Forster and the BBC." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609445.

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Parsons, Sarah. "External signs of internal representations : developments in processing utterances and beliefs." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11987/.

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Three factors in Referential Communication are worthy of special consideration: the utterance, the speaker's internal representation, and reality. These relationships form the 'referential triangle' of communication. This thesis explores how children and adults evaluate utterances when all three elements of the referential triangle need to be considered. The main aim was to investigate why utterances might be more difficult to understand than other externalisations of internal representations, such as pictorial representations of belief. Chapter 2 investigated the usefulness of presenting an i

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Read, Robin. "A study of non-linguistic utterances for social human-robot interaction." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3028.

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The world of animation has painted an inspiring image of what the robots of the future could be. Taking the robots R2D2 and C3PO from the Star Wars films as representative examples, these robots are portrayed as being more than just machines, rather, they are presented as intelligent and capable social peers, exhibiting many of the traits that people have also. These robots have the ability to interact with people, understand us, and even relate to us in very personal ways through a wide repertoire of social cues. As robotic technologies continue to make their way into society at large, there

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Hang, Sijia. "Clustering Short Texts: Categorizing Initial Utterances from Customer Service Dialogue Agents." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-453814.

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Text classification involves labeled data, which is not always available, or requires expensive manual labour.User-generated short texts are being produced in abundance in customer service sectors through transcripts of phone calls or chats online. This kind of unstructured textual data can be noisy and thus poses challenges to unsupervised classification methods developed for standard documents such as news articles.This thesis project explores some possible methods of unsupervised classification of user-generated short texts in Swedish on a real-world dataset of short texts collected from fi

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Brown, Stephen W. "The Reasonable Score." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1244162438.

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Baillie, Constance M. "Effectiveness of maternal differential feedback to young children's utterances, a sequential analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1994. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23745.pdf.

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Payne-Woolridge, Ruth. "Teacher's use of face-aligned utterances and mitigation strategies in the classroom." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.509857.

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Nguyen, Lap Van. "The relationship between number of toys, infant distractibility, and mothers' teaching utterances." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4995.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among the number of toys in an infant's play environment, infant's distractibility, and how often a mother teaches her infant during a play session. This study takes samples from videotapes of 12-month old children playing with their mothers during a 5 minute free-play situation. Twenty-two mother and infant pairs were selected for this study based on their previous participation in a language study. The measures used in this study were: (1) the number of maternal teaching utterances to her infant; (2) the total number of utterances

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Masinyana, Abdul-Malik Sibabalwe Oscar. "Ke in utterances: uses and functions of the Xhosa discourse marker ke." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6789.

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Discourse Markers (DM) have been identified in so many languages, utterance contexts, and studied from so many angles and theoretical approaches (Ogoanah, 2011;; Jantjies, 2009;; Jabeen, et. al, 2011;; Dér and Markó, 2010;; Verdonik et.al, 2007;; Li, 2010;; Hernández, 2011;; Camiciottoli, 2009), so much that another study hardly seems necessary. Focusing on Xhosa, a linguistic context where hardly any work is being done on DMs, this thesis argues that the Xhosa particle ke is a DM that is popular in, but not restricted to, oral utterances and a DM that is present even in 19th century Xhosa utt

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Walker, Katie Lynn. "Modeling Children's Organization of Utterances Using Statistical Information from Adult Language Input." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7378.

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Previous computerized models of child language acquisition have sought to determine how children acquire grammatical word categories (GWCs). The current study seeks to determine if statistical structure can be corroborated as a factor in GWC acquisition. Previous studies examining statistical structure have dealt with word order rather than GWC order and only examined an overall success rate. The present study examines how well a computer model of child acquisition of GWCs was able to reorganize scrambled sentences back into the correct GWC order using transitional probabilities extracted from

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Liu, Qiang. "The minimal speech unit involved in phonological encoding and articulation of nonosyllabic utterances /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Tohyama, Hitomi. "An Analysis of the Characteristics of Interpreters' Utterances Using CIAIR Simultaneous Interpretation Database." INTELLIGENT MEDIA INTEGRATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY / COE, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/10455.

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Otsuki, Kyoko. "Cross-linguistic study of elliptical utterances in task-oriented dialogues with classroom implications." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5821.

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Ellipsis is a phenomenon whereby constituents which are normally obligatory in the grammar are omitted in actual discourse. It is found in all types of discourse, from everyday conversation to poetry. The omitted constituents can range from one word to an entire clause, and recovery of the ellipted item depends sometimes on the linguistic and sometimes on the non-linguistic context. From a practical point of view, the contribution of ellipsis in the context is twofold. First, it is one of several important means of achieving cohesion in a text. Secondly, ellipsis contributes to communicative a

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Bateman, John A. "Utterances in context : towards a systemic theory of the intersubjective achievement of discourse." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19207.

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Schlangen, David. "A coherence-based approach to the interpretation of non-sentential utterances in dialogue." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/318.

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This thesis is concerned with the syntax, compositional semantics and contextually-situated interpretation of a certain kind of non-sentential utterance occuring in dialogue, namely one where the utterance, despite its ‘incomplete’ syntactic form, is intended to convey a proposition, a question or a request. Perhaps the most prominent type of such utterances is the short answer, as in “A: Who came to the party? — B: Peter.”, but there are many other types as well. Following (Morgan 1973) and (Ginzburg 1999b) and others, we will call such utterances fragments. Clearly, the interpretation of fra

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Johnson, Deanna Michelle. "Women's and Men's Perceptions Regarding Perceived Speaker Sex and Politeness of Given Utterances." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277635/.

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Women's and men's responses regarding perceived speaker sex and the politeness of given utterances were examined through the use of a questionnaire administered to 90 people, 45 men and 45 women. The questionnaire required respondents to rate the politeness of each utterance and label each as being more likely spoken by a man or by a woman. Factors possibly affecting perceptions--such as power, prestige, and the stereotypical conversational structures of both men and women--were addressed through others' research in this area. Additionally, all tested sentences were analyzed in light of lingui

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Nakata, Hitomi. "Timing relationship between spoken and sung utterances in Japanese : speech rhythm and musical rhythm." Thesis, University of Reading, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440104.

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Arno, Elizabeth Mary Catherine. "Out of the depths : utterances of profundity in Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269726.

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Hamilton, Catharine Elizabeth. "The Relation between Depression and Trait Anxiety Symptoms and Maternal Utterances during Sonogram Procedures." Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10981646.

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<p> The present study examines the relation between depression and trait anxiety symptoms and women’s utterances during a routine ultrasound procedure in the second trimester of pregnancy. Participants included a diverse group of 70 women seeking prenatal care at an academic medical center in the Midwestern United States. The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21) depression subscale and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), trait form were used to assess symptoms of depression and trait anxiety, respectively. Audio and video of participants’ faces during the ultrasound exa

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Ivir-Ashworth, Ksenija Corinna. "The nature of two trilingual children's utterances : growing up with Croatian, English and German." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2011. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/34212/.

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Shoaf, Lisa Contos. "The contribution of phonotactic and lexical information in the segmentation of multi-word utterances." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1028727910.

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Brown, Michael. "Clinician-client interactions in MET : the effect of clinicians' utterances on client commitment talk." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8054/.

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Motivational Interviewing is an effective treatment for a range of problematic behaviours. However, previous studies have revealed substantial variability in the effectiveness of clinicians. Curiously, the specific clinician behaviours which contribute to positive outcomes have rarely been studied. Previous studies have often focused on the impact of broad categories of clinician behaviour on outcomes; such outcomes have often been overt client behaviours. The current study represented a substantial shift from the dominant methodologies in the MI literature. It aimed to study the effect specif

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Karlsson, Denise. "Do people with larger lungs speak in longer utterances and inhale less frequently? : Relationships between lung capacity, respiratory rate, proportion of lung capacity used for speech and utterance durations." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182407.

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This study examined the relationship between lung capacity, speech volume and duration of utterances. 8 adult subjects, 4 males and 4 females (24-36 yrs), participated. By breathing into a digital spirometer, lung capacities such as Vital Capacity (VC) and Inspirational Capacity (IC) were estimated. Respiratory movements were measured using Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography (RIP), and these respiratory movements were calibrated in litres using the spirometer. The proportion of lung capacity used for speech was estimated from the calibrated RIP signals during reading of a nonsense text wit

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Moström, Erik. "Speech act classification : A comparison of algorithms for classifying out of context utterances with DAMSL." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-142512.

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With the growing of everyday automation the need for better speech understanding in machines increases. A unsolved problem in speech processing is the automatic recognition of speech acts. A speech act is a utterance which fills a function in the communication. This problem is approached in this thesis by fitting classifiers using machine learning algorithms. The algorithms used are Linear Support Vector Classifier, Multinomial Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, and Perceptron. The N-gram model was used in combination with a tf-idf to extract features. Utterances are used out of context for the tests

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Shen, Haibing. "Gender and conversational interaction in Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study of radio talk shows /." Connect to resource, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1144685966.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1997.<br>Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-80). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Falkevall, Björn. "Livsfrågor och religionskunskap : En belysning av ett centralt begrepp i svensk religionsdidaktik." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogiskt arbete, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-32373.

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This thesis focuses on “livsfrågor” (questions of life) a typical Swedish concept introduced in the RE syllabus in the curriculum for compulsory schools in 1969. The study poses three questions: what can qualify as a “livsfråga”, why are they regarded important, and how do they fit into teaching? The main purpose is to study differences of the concept in two materials. Primarily interviews with Teacher educators all over Sweden and, secondly in the R.E. syllabus for compulsory and secondary schools from 1962 until today. Finally, the two materials used, will be brought together, and foci are r

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Bira, Yirgu Nigussie. ""And you say" : echoic utterances in Malachi with special reference to irony, denial and echoic questions." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2015. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/17419/.

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This thesis investigates echoic utterances in Malachi with special reference to irony in 1:2-5 and irony and denial in 2:17-3:12. Instances of irony, denial and echo questions in 1:6-14 are also analysed in the process of explaining irony in 1:2-5. The Relevance Theory (RT) of ostensive communication, particularly its notion of echoic metarepresentation provides the methodology. The thesis has five chapters. The first chapter consists of introductory materials, namely background information and a quick review of previous works. Following an overview of key background information, a detailed an

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Cai, Yunhong. "Elizabeth’s Utterances in Pride and Prejudice : An Investigation of Gendered Differences from the Perspective of Face Theory." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Enheten för lärarutbildning, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-8029.

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The aim of this essay is to investigate Face Theory, from a gender perspective, in the 19th century’s novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with the help of Speech Act Theory including direct Speech and indirect Speech. The special focuses of this investigation are if Elizabeth has a stereotypical use of FTAs strategies for different genders.

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Bright, Duane Everett. "The effects of pictorial extralinguistic context and its relationship to isolated utterances on listening comprehension in Spanish." Connect to resource, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1213721882.

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Lilliesköld, Linn. "The Significance of Relevant Utterances in Call Centre Dialogues : A Psycholinguistic Study of Merging of Mental Spaces." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-91077.

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The present psycholinguistic study explores the phenomenon of mental spaces and the processes which contribute to a mental space blend in the call centre communicative context between the call centre operator and the customer. Mental space blends are measured quantitatively by means of Correct Information Unit (CIU) and Mean Length of Utterance (MLU). The correlation between CIUs and MLU in a blended space is investigated. The results of the study indicate that a superior number of CIUs in a blended space mapped into a successful outcome of the communication between the call centre operator an

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Diego, Jonathan P. San. "The effect on learners' strategies of varying computer-based representations : evidence from gazes, actions, utterances and sketches." Thesis, Open University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505441.

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Computer-based Multiple External Representations (MERs) have been found in some cases to help and in others to hinder the learning process. This thesis examines how varying the external representations that are presented in a computer environment influences the strategies that learners choose when tackling mathematics tasks. It has been noted (Ainsworth, 2006) that learners fail to transfer insights from one representation to another. Previous work analysing video data of learners' problem-solving with computerbased MERs emphasises the need to identify which representation is being considered

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