Sentence examples for shift words from inspiring English sources

However, the results indicated that both middle and high schoolers were more accurate on stable versus shift words.

During reading, saccadic eye movements are generated to shift words into the center of the visual field for lexical processing.

The researchers compiled a list of phonological shift words (e.g., majority) and stable words (e.g., maturity), which controlled for spelling, word length, base frequency, and derived-word frequency.

Response times on the phonological transparency word type were the only ones not supported by our hypothesis: stable matched control words were read as quickly as shift words.

Within each task type participants were more accurate at identifying stable words (M = 86.5% passage; M = 81.3% naming) than shift words (M = 79.1% passage; M = 35.6% naming; p =.001, p <.001, respectively).

In isolation, the adults did not have the clues to help them figure out the more difficult phonological shift words, and they therefore spent longer trying to identify the words.

More specifically, a change of the F0 context from high to low or vice versa before the final target sibilant was able to shift word-identification judgments by up to 30%.

Indeed, for all the shifting words, Mr. Obama has left the bulk of Mr. Bush's national security architecture intact so far.

But his shifting words matter greatly in this situation.

Some suggestions were handled as comments, but overall many of the figures could be improved by shifting words out of the figure and into the captions or supporting text.

Greater word diversity combined with a shift in word frequency in the postunit word association is likely the result of language learning together with some language conformity upon completion of the unit.