Sentence examples for backward speech from inspiring English sources

In comparison to a backward speech condition we found an activation of the left perisylvian region, including the left inferior frontal cortex and the left superior and middle temporal gyri.

Further, the only study reporting no specialized response to forward compared with backward speech used low-pass filtered speech samples (May et al., 2011), whereas other studies used unfiltered speech.

For instance, the study reporting bilateral activation to speech compared with non-speech sounds contrasted speech with silence (Perani et al., 2011), whereas all studies reporting a left-lateralized speech response contrasted speech with another sound (typically non-native speech or backward speech).

In 1826 Allan Melvill wrote of his son as being "backward in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension... of a docile and amiable disposition".

It was not, though, a backward-looking speech.

It combined airy religious sentiments with weak political gestures most regrettably, a George W. Bush speech sung backward.

It combined airy religious sentiments with weak political gestures — most regrettably, a George W. Bush speech sung backward.

Intrigued, Mr. Oates began to discover all sorts of messages encoded backward in songs and speech: clear phrases and sentences often created by a person's hems and haws.

Too many nations – especially Afghanistan – have suffered too many losses to see this country slide backward". Ahead of her speech Clinton promised a group of leading Afghan women that the US would not abandon women's rights as it tries to reach a political solution.

In a discussion at Colorado State University this month, Allison Sylte, a student journalist, suggested that the Academy helped break the connection between her generation and high-end movies in 2011 when it chose as Best Picture "The King's Speech," which looked backward, rather than "The Social Network," which pushed ahead.

But speeches themselves seem backward looking in this age of the sound bite, when there is no such thing as a captive television audience.