Both word familiarity and degree of mismatch affected adults' use of phonetic detail: in their looking behavior, participants did not reliably differentiate single-feature mispronunciations and correct pronunciations of low frequency words.
There are several parameters that we can use to assess relationships in terms of tenor (Halliday and Matthiessen 2013), for instance, institutional roles, power relations, degree familiarity and affect.
To ensure that actively and passively learned melodies had the same degree of familiarity, we conducted a performance test for familiarity: the four melodies were presented in random order and slight variations were built into 7 of the 15 repetitions of each melody.
The two group sizes, two degrees of familiarity with the penned sheep and two degrees of familiarity with the companions were incorporated into a Latin square design.
There was an additive effect of the degree of familiarity: the ewes with familiar companions grazed the preferred feeding site for longer, vocalised less and were less vigilant than those with unfamiliar companions.
In fact, it is likely that the degree of familiarity among the class of familiar stimuli (during encoding) was quite variable and that those stimuli whose encoding benefited most from reward were the least familiar (relatively most novel) ones.
In addition to manipulating the degree of familiarity with the experimenter (handling), we also manipulated the degree of familiarity with the object.
As students in the Master's programs in Medicine and Public Health have a higher degree of familiarity with reference programs than students in the Bachelor's programs, it may be expected that familiarity with reference programs generally increases over the course of their studies.
The use of non-standardized stimuli consisting of subjects' favourite songs and their own parents' voices may also introduce possible effects relating to degree of familiarity between autistic and controls groups autistic children may be obsessively familiar with their particular song selections.
A degree of familiarity with the subject is assumed.
