In one experiment, the researchers played 96 sentences, half of them spoken by famous actors, politicians, or other celebrities, the other half spoken by unfamiliar voices.
More often in this show, though, history is internalized, a state of mind, half-hallucinated, as it is in the animated film by Mr. Bakowski, an artist from Poland, who accompanied his flickering watercolor images of toilets, tired feet, detached sexual organs, rotted fruit and faded flowers with a half-whispered litany of spoken phrases.
Half of those spoken to during the headcount said they didn't get the help they needed.
One hundred and sixty expository texts (half of them spoken and half of them written) were analyzed.
Half of those speak Spanish, followed by Chinese, Russian, languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent, French Creole, Italian and Yiddish (2.3 percent).
How can we pro-Europeans have so underrated the painful sense of losing out from Europeanisation that I encountered on the doorstep when canvassing for a vote to remain, and which now screams through the vote of the other half of England? ("Speak for yourself," you may retort. I do, brother, I do).
The state has about 3,600 certified enrollment counselors and more than half of them speak Spanish, according to Covered California.
Half of them speak English with me, the other half smile and pat me on the back.
Half of them speak English with me, the other half smile at me and pat me on the back.
