Sentences with phrase «verbal word choice»

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A word - for - word approach to stop verbal abuse in its tracks, identify what triggers it, and help your child make better choices the next time.

The verbal jousting between Django and Stephen (an overt Uncle Tom in every sense of the word — wonder what Quentin's old friend Spike thinks) is a highlight, particularly with Foxx's sneering, swaggy characterization versus Jackson's wide - eyed anger; Jackson in particular hasn't been this engaged in years, even if it's under a thick coat of black makeup and fake jowls, choices of purposely questionable taste.

Popular choices include certain words or verbal sounds, clickers or bells.

Study subjects asked to «talk» their way through mazes used more verbal fillers when confronted with mazes that could be navigated using multiple routes.33 Conversely, mazes with a single path (and fewer choices) produced fewer fillers.34 But the maze study produced another interesting result: When study subjects were told they could use only four words to talk their way through the maze (left, right, up, down), they began to use more verbal fillers, even when describing simple mazes.35 Researchers posited that the «lexical suppression» created by limiting speakers to four words triggered a stopping and starting of the speech apparatus that prevented speakers from developing a normal speech rhythm.36 Thus, while verbal fillers are a mark of task complexity, they also appear where, «for some other reason, the flow of speech is disrupted.»

A word - for - word approach to stop verbal abuse in its tracks, identify what triggers it, and help your child make better choices the next time.