Ms. Quinn, the City Council speaker, remained the Democratic front-runner, favored by 26 percent of the respondents.
But Mr. Collins, a South Jersey politician who is serving out his last weeks as speaker, remained optimistic.
A bowl of fruits and vegetables, a prop brought by a speaker, remained on the front table in the room, minus a nectarine, which had been plucked by Councilman Robert Jackson after he concluded his remarks against the mayor's plan.
For the experiments, it has been assumed that the T 60 and the DOA of the target speaker remain constant for each utterance.
It's since shipped one (the Pixel kit) but the other two (a build-it-yourself camera kit and a DIY speaker) remain delayed — leaving crowdfunder backers waiting for their hardware.
During the initial 0.5 s of each speech video, the speaker remained still.
Matukar Panau, for instance, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea, has about 600 speakers remaining, in two small villages.
The Ainu language, which has no proven relationship to Japanese or any other language, is moribund, with only a few elderly native speakers remaining in Hokkaido.
The Sauk Language Department in Oklahoma recently mourned the passing of Maxine Cobb, one of the three fluent speakers remaining of Sauk.
It is particularly poignant to work on a language like Chulym where there are only eight speakers remaining, where I've had the opportunity to know each of the last speakers personally, to record their stories, to participate in their lives and it's been a great privilege; then, ultimately, to visit their grave sites when they have passed on.
