The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

AAC is now used for a wide variety of speech impairments.

The question of priority, whether for the individual or community, must be determined in dealing with pressing ethical questions about a variety of social issues, such as health care, abortion, multiculturalism, and hate speech.

There have been cases of a variety of speech being deliberately reclassified to serve political purposes.

It was prepared to be incorporated within a wide variety of existing programs and textbooks in English, speech, media, communications, journalism, social studies.

Contemporary hypnotism makes use of a wide variety of different forms of suggestion including: direct verbal suggestions, " indirect " verbal suggestions such as requests or insinuations, metaphors and other rhetorical figures of speech, and non-verbal suggestion in the form of mental imagery, voice tonality, and physical manipulation.

Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the parts of speech, although many modern theorists would not regard them as a single distinct word class, because of the variety of functions performed by words which are classed as pronouns.

Of particular note is the U. S. program in speech recognition for the Advanced Fighter Technology Integration ( AFTI )/ F-16 aircraft ( F-16 VISTA ), and a program in France installing speech recognition systems on Mirage aircraft, and also programs in the UK dealing with a variety of aircraft platforms.

This basic sound is then filtered by the nose and throat ( a complicated resonant piping system ) to produce differences in harmonic content ( formants ) in a controlled way, creating the wide variety of sounds used in speech.

Worms & Reinforcements United and its sequels gave players the ability to pick between a variety of speech sets ( called " sound banks ") for each platoon of worms.

Adverbs are traditionally regarded as one of the parts of speech, although the wide variety of the functions performed by words classed as adverbs means that it is hard to treat them as a single uniform category.

On the other hand, however, there started rising at the same time cries in defence of Cockney as, for example the following one: " The London dialect is really, especially on the South side of the Thames, a perfectly legitimate and responsible child of the old kentish tongue the dialect of London North of the Thames has been shown to be one of the many varieties of the Midland or Mercian dialect, flavoured by the East Anglian variety of the same speech ".

As with many expletives, the term can be used as an interjection or as many other parts of speech, and can carry a wide variety of meanings.

Because formant-based systems have complete control of all aspects of the output speech, a wide variety of prosodies and intonations can be output, conveying not just questions and statements, but a variety of emotions and tones of voice.

Since the time of McCarthy, the word McCarthyism has entered American speech as a general term for a variety of practices: aggressively questioning a person's patriotism, making poorly supported accusations, using accusations of disloyalty to pressure a person to adhere to conformist politics or to discredit an opponent, subverting civil rights in the name of national security, and the use of demagoguery are all often referred to as McCarthyism.

The variety of Spanish spoken in this province displays some of the characteristics of Andalusian speech, such as dropping of final-s in plural formation: gafa for gafas ( and consequent final vowel opening ) in the word " glasses ", or dropping of / d / in intervocalic position in regular participles of verbs: e. g. acabao for acabado.

His speech variety serves as a foil to Morse's pedantry and RP.

In order to get a grasp on a specific linguistic form and how it is used in the dialect of the subject, a variety of methods are used to elicit certain registers of speech.

An important implication of sociolinguistic theory is that speakers ' choose ' a variety when making a speech act, whether consciously or subconsciously.

It has been used for a variety of purposes, including speech recognition ( Nintendogs, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!

German linguists refer to this speech variety, a group of three East Upper German dialects, as Bairisch " Bavarian ".

A Creole-dominant speaker will choose a higher variety for formal occasions like official business or a wedding speech, and a lower one for relating to friends ; a Standard-dominant speaker is likely to employ a lower variety when shopping at the market than at their workplace.

'' For present purposes it may be assumed that this charge so narrowly limited speech as to violate the federal Constitution.

The causes of retardation and maladjustment may be found in physical factors, such as defective speech or hearing, impaired vision, faulty motor coordination, a frail constitution, chronic disease, malnutrition, and glandular malfunctioning.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

They may be as basic as pictures on a board that the are used to request food, drink, or other care ; or they can be advanced speech generating devices, based on speech synthesis, that are capable of storing hundreds of phrases and words.

Studies show that AAC use does not impede the development of speech, and may even result in a modest increase in speech production.

Dysarthria, an impairment with articulation, may also be present and is characterized by " scanning " speech that consists of slower rate, irregular rhythm and variable volume.

There may also be slurring of speech, tremor of the voice and ataxic respiration.

On the other hand, they may not preside over Adoration or Benediction, give a speech that is a homily, or read the Gospel during a Mass or serve as instituted acolytes, a ministry which is now reserved for those preparing for ordained service ).

Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”

The epideictic speech in praise of love which Agathon recites in the Symposium is full of beautiful but artificial rhetorical expressions, and has led some scholars to believe he may have been a student of Gorgias.

The Letter of Philip ( speech 12 ) to which speech 11 seems to respond may also be by Anaximenes, or it may be an authentic letter by Philip, perhaps written with the aid of his advisers.

Other actions may be selected by the student, tailored to their interests or work activities such as hobbies, computer use, lifting, driving or performance in acting, sports, speech or music.

Raymond Williams argues that there is no unique and or individual aesthetic object which can be extrapolated from the art world, but that there is a continuum of cultural forms and experience of which ordinary speech and experiences may signal as art.

A person may exhibit pressured speech, with thoughts experienced as racing.

It may allude to a literal custom of breaking a moneychanger's bench or counter to signify his insolvency, but it may also be only a figure of speech.

Bliss ’ s concern about semantics finds an early referent in John Locke, whose Essay Concerning Human Understanding prevented people from those " vague and insignificant forms of speech " that may give the impression of being deep learning.

The symptoms of a benzodiazepine overdose may include ; drowsiness, slurred speech, nystagmus, hypotension, ataxia, coma, respiratory depression, and cardiorespiratory arrest.

In the presence of " communication noise " on the transmission channel ( air, in this case ), reception and decoding of content may be faulty, and thus the speech act may not achieve the desired effect.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Tone languages use for linguistic contrasts speech parameters which also function heavily in nonlinguistic use.

Badly placed teeth can also cause such a speech handicap as lisping.

Interestingly, the geographic borderlines between the different accents ( isoglosses ) coincide strongly with the borders of the states and also with the border with Bavaria, with Bavarians having a markedly different rhythm of speech in spite of the similarities in the language.

" He also worked as a logographer, having written the speech prosecuting Phryne according to Diodorus Periegetes ( quoted by Athenaeus XIII. 591e ).

During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to also include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) to combat racism.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

With narration of direct speech, both styles retain punctuation inside the quotation marks, with a full stop changing into a comma if followed by explanatory text, also known as a dialogue tag.

* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.

He also notes that according to Genesis, the first speech act is due to Eve, addressing the serpent, and not to Adam.

There are also anthroposophical movements to renew speech and drama, the most important of which are based in the work of Marie Steiner-von Sivers ( speech formation, also known as Creative Speech ) and the Chekhov Method originated by Michael Chekhov ( nephew of Anton Chekhov ).

God's speech also emphasizes his sovereignty in creating and maintaining the world.

Though he received only average grades, he also competed in high school speech tournaments regionally.

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

The speech was also seen as a stand against the Soviet Union because it stated the firm intention of the United States to maintain a military presence in Europe indefinitely.

The Lyon Tablet preserves his speech on the admittance of Gallic senators, in which he addresses the Senate with reverence but also with criticism for their disdain of these men.

Cyber Patrol, a product developed by The Anti-Defamation League and Mattel's The Learning Company, has been found to block not only political sites it deems to be engaging in ' hate speech ' but also human rights web sites, such as Amnesty International's web page about Israel and gay-rights web sites, such as glaad. org.