The company's engineers experimented with a variety of speaker materials, for example, and spent hundreds of hours just tuning the system to the A8's interior.
"If I were to list the desired properties for medical adhesives, they would look exactly the same," said session speaker and materials scientist Phillip Messersmith of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
In the text, the nominal group "this one", used four times (see Ben's utterances at no. 3), is a reference to something in the mutually visible environment of the speakers, the material environment.
Acknowledging our resource constraints, we attempted to address this limitation in part by including participants from Francophone African countries in one of the deliberative forums and by making the online forum accessible to French speakers, with materials and discussion summaries translated into French.
The raw values still reflect the database they have been derived from, in terms of speakers and sentence material.
As it was not possible to control for how speakers produced the material, very few instances of elided vowels were produced, resulting in a very small set on which it was not possible to run statistical tests.
A bilingual, bicultural researcher (native speaker) translated study materials into Spanish, which were reviewed by the promotoras (female community health workers from the area) for semantic, conceptual, and normative equivalence and understanding.
Some are made from a hard material with speaker holes drilled into the side, and all have prettily patterned fabric jackets to protect and conceal – details mimicked on the front cover of the book.
No one but a scientifically educated native speaker can produce this material.
