The pianist Gerald Clayton played the first set of his first night of his first week at the Village Vanguard on Tuesday, and prefaced it with a familiar speech, the kind that's been heard there on many first-night Tuesdays in the past.
Mr. Cheney, who has confronted questions about his health, his voting record in Congress and his multimillion-dollar retirement package from a major oil services corporation, has largely kept a low profile, staging small events, sticking to a familiar speech script and generally staying clear of reporters from national news organizations.
Trump was warmly greeted by supporters and delivered a familiar speech that included shots at his party rivals, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson, and promises to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. .
In advance of the vote on his political future, Mulcair delivered a last-ditch effort to stay — an impassioned, albeit familiar, speech to party faithful on Sunday morning, peppered with stock leftist phrases like 'big banks' and 'creeping privatization' with some beatification of former party leaders.
A study obtaining neural recordings from songbirds during the moment at which they may experience the illusionary percept will allow identifying the sites and mechanisms involved in the perceptual restoration of learned song motifs in birds that resemble the perceptual restoration of familiar speech signals in humans.
As such, sinewave replicas of speech sounds could be sufficiently similar to familiar speech sounds to engage a learned normalization process.
First, it is possible that viewing a familiar speech rhythm contributed to the enhanced excitability of the articulatory motor cortex during observation of English visual speech.
The model consisted of four active conditions: 1) familiar music, 2) familiar speech, 3) unfamiliar music, and 4) unfamiliar speech, and two auditory control conditions: 5) scrambled music and 6) scrambled speech.
While this minimizes the differences in spectral resolution between the original and the spectrally rotated materials, participants may still find it easier to discriminate between extremely familiar speech sounds than between their unfamiliar spectrally rotated counterparts.
