Mr Blair spent a large section of the speech analysing the history of Islam, which he said began as "inclusive", "practical and way ahead of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance," and "extolling science and knowledge".
Word lengths do not differ much: the average word used in the speeches analysed had around 4.5 letters.
Having spent 30 years rebuilding a Welsh cottage, I long ago became a fan of his brilliant Commons speeches analysing the peculiarities of Wales, with its reviving linguistic nationalism, its mixture of indigenous folk with essential "incomers" and its un-Scottish dependence on the English economy.
Speech error analyses showed that errors were better described as phoneme rather than item ordering errors.
To better understand how racial attitudes influenced perceptions of hate speech, further analyses examined the responses of low racial bias participants and high racial bias participants separately.
Results of this study show that the sex and age of the immediate listeners influence variant selection, thus reinforcing the need for speech accommodation analyses in sociolinguistic research.
The Gore campaign's written answer to the Bush speech cited analyses that supported Mr. Gore's contention that middle-class Americans would get more economic help from him.
Such intentions to mislead came to be called sneaky intentions (Grice 1969), and they constituted a problem for speech act analyses based on communicative intentions.
Speech was analysed with respect to frequency and imageability, and a recently-developed measure called semantic diversity.
When I started doing this research I came from a phonetics background where you break speech down, analyse it and build it up again.
The material effect of being so isolated is that information is reordered around the reality they can't escape: everybody has to care what the Hamas military guy says; his speech is analysed late into the night by groups huddled over cigarettes.
