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paralinguistic

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par·a·lin·guis·tic  (pr-lng-gwstk)
adj.
Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

para·lin·guisti·cal·ly adv.
para·lin·guistics n.
Translations
paralinguistic [ˌpærəlɪŋˈgwɪstɪk] ADJparalingüístico


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A Mode analysis of the above transcript would comment on, among other things, how the children make use of a non-verbal (gesture) and a paralinguistic feature (chicken noise) in their communication with the teacher, as they are still learning English vocabulary and structures.
The patent, for "generating paralinguistic phenomena via markup in text-to-speech syntheses," is the next step in making computer voices more expressive and less perfect--more like human speech, in other words.
Kate Rankin, a neuropsychologist and assistant professor in the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco, used a recently developed test, the Awareness of Social Inference Test (Tasit) to test people based entirely on paralinguistic cues.
 
 
 
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