This is a form of reassuring the speaker that you have truly been listening to what he or she is saying.
The test audio consists of a piece of a newspaper article read by a speaker; the recording is clean but for some noise added at a few time instants, including the high frequency noise of a shaken key ring, the wide-band noise of some crumpling paper, and some impulsive noise in the form of coughs of the speaker.
If we detect some sort of an accent, be it French, Southern, Spanish, Bostonian, British, Arabic, Italian... we immediately form an opinion of the speaker even if he has only uttered a few sounds.
Moreover, even if the LF of a sentence S underdetermines the logical form of the proposition a speaker expresses with S (on a given occasion of use), the LF may provide a "scaffolding" that can be elaborated in particular contexts, with little or no mismatch between grammatical and propositional architecture.
Almost all the $110 million that forms the basis of the speaker's proposal came from audits of individual and corporate taxpayers during the last fiscal year, which ended in June.
While we New Yorkers have no vote on the matter, our elected representatives in the form of Speaker Silver and Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate majority leader, will have truly done their jobs if this decision prevails.
In the GMM-based speaker identification framework, speaker information is extracted in the form of the probabilistic score for the corresponding speaker model, which is then compared with each other in the decision.
Japanese verbs have a socially-neutral form as well as honorific (expressing the higher status of the referent) and humilific (expressing the lower status of the speaker) forms.
The casuistic aspect of this hair-splitting leads to a labyrinthine form of argument where the speaker blows enough rhetorical smoke to make his interlocutor submit.
Moreover, 11a carries an implicature that they did not form a band, nor does the possibility for them to form a band exist anymore as of the speaker's utterance time.
