However, rather than rallies and protests, commencement speaker choices could instead serve as a foundation for civil discussion, as has been in the case at a few locations in the past.
Explaining speakers' choice of items to emphasize or de-emphasize intonationally has been an important topic in theoretical linguistics, as well as in applications such as speech synthesis, where accent decisions affect naturalness as well as interpretation.
They show speakers' choice in terms of evaluation and stance in institutional deliberative debate can be of a 'register-idiosyncratic' nature.
Finally, 20 pointing or indicating gestures were excluded (2%) because they made deictic reference to one of the other people or objects in the room, so the speakers' choice of hand may have been influenced by their locations.
In the two-speaker choice paradigm, two stimuli are broadcasted from two spatially separated speakers simultaneously.
Two special cases, the habituation-recovery design and the two-speaker choice test are discussed separately, as they cut across these broad categories.
Results showed that conceptual overlap influenced Chinese speakers' choices of conceptual information (manner and/or path mention), illustrating that abstract event structure is activated at the stage of Message Planning, consistent with the findings obtained from English speakers.
Ms. Keller's innate musicality and expressive voice soon made her the classical music world's speaker of choice, adding Stravinsky's "Perséphone" and Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream" to her repertory and presenting recital programs of music for speaking voice and piano.
