Even that can have a benefit because the swelling can cause neurological problems like those affecting speech or motion.
When the members of a creepy self-help group request confessionals, Portia delivers a surprisingly affecting speech about the fact that people think she's dumb.
Her castmate Ann Dowd gave the night's most affecting speech, as one of the only winners who seemed to regard winning an Emmy as a genuine honor yet another reason to reward veteran character actors.
The raw grief of Machel was given voice by Ahmed Kathrada who, in arguably the most affecting speech of the past 10 days, laid bare how old age had become Mandela's new jailer.
Children suffering from neural disorders affecting speech and comprehension exhibit certain patterns when performing a certain test, essentially narrating a series of pictures.
We were able to dissociate auditory and somatosensory feedback by using a robotic device that altered the jaw's motion path, and hence proprioception, without affecting speech acoustics.
Genetic influences on language are supported by evidence relating abnormalities in certain genes to a range of disorders affecting speech and language development in children.
We are particularly interested in the role that regional vowel shifts currently affecting speech in the North and the South of the U.S. (the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, respectively) play in both production and perception.
There are two factors affecting speech intelligibility.
