Sentences with phrase «shorter utterance»

Language delays are typically characterized by immature verbal skills, shorter utterance lengths, and less overall verbal attempts.

But research conducted over the last decade has suggested that these short utterances may have benefits, particularly in their ability to command the listener's attention.

Not exact matches

A large proportion of it comes in the form of short, crisp utterances, pungent, often allusive, even cryptic, laden with irony and paradox.

Several shorter prophetic writings (among them Habakkuk, Nahum, and Joel) are now interpreted as having been produced out of cultic influence, in the liturgical style of the cult ritual.4 Elsewhere throughout the recorded prophetic utterances there appear strong suggestions of conscious or unconscious adaptation of cultic ritual.

The almost complete absence of parables is hard to account for, and while allowance must be made for the tendency of the fourth evangelist to introduce into the discourses of Jesus the fruit of his own reflections and meditations, there is a striking difference between the style in which Jesus speaks in this gospel and that of the short pithy utterances of Jesus in the synoptic gospels.

Or again, like a wisdom teacher, he set forth in short proverb like utterances, often highly picturesque, God's claim on man and man's position as regards God.

Again, aside from the parables, there is a great wealth of two types of discourse which are especially easy to recall, the use of figurative language and the use of the aphorism or short sententious utterances which, heard but once, are easily remembered.

In addition, people using IDS are more likely speak in shorter, simpler utterances.

People often use infant - directed speech in shorter and simpler utterances but it can also include adult vocabulary.

Your child may answer questions in short two - to three - word utterances.

We strongly advice the state governor to be civil and guarded in his utterances and also, have it at the back of his mind that power is for a short while», Ladoja said.

When Spitzer finished his cryptic utterance — «I will not be taking questions, I will report back to you in short order» — a camera operator yelled out: «Fucking asshole!

The shorter time frame is a bit of a disappointment, but I do understand you were adapting to The President's stereo teleprompter utterance.

The court cited that relatively short distance, along with the severe pain the victim likely was feeling, in reasoning that it was «inconceivable» that the victim could have spent the time it took to get from point «A» to point «B» concocting a story and in ruling that the victim's statements should have been admitted under the «excited utterance / spontaneous declaration» exception to the rule against hearsay.

On the basis of longitudinal data for 25 mother - child dyads, videotaped when the children were 17, 23, 30, and 36 months old in a free play and a short separation situation, it was investigated whether securely and insecurely attached children differ with respect to the amount of verbal contributions, their realization as alternating or simultaneous utterances, and the duration of intra-turn and inter-turn pauses.