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TPO 17 - Question 4
Ritualization
Sociobiologists believe that some communicative behavior in animals is developed through a process called ritualization. In this process, the purpose of a given behavior changes over time—a behavior that originally had a practical purpose develops into one that communicates a specific message. For example, a certain movement or physical feature might evolve to serve as a signal or a warning that other animals will understand. Once a behavior is ritualized, it becomes a form of communication; therefore, if an animal engages in this behavior, other animals will be able to interpret the meaning of the behavior quickly and respond appropriately.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-08-19 | mike818 | 51.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-10 | ajulyav | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-26 | bishoy | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-19 | Valeria1949 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-11 | paras001 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 590.0 592.248995984 100% => OK
No of words: 154.0 155.574297189 99% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.83116883117 3.80514564318 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.52273666998 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86841552014 1.79077849142 104% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 93.7148594378 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.636363636364 0.604071249207 105% => OK
Syllable count: 182.7 185.844578313 98% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0236906079475 0.0650381309087 36% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 4.35341365462 207% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 17.1111111111 68.503853103 25% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.5896931648 21.3332995233 54% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.14111111111 25.9943957902 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.06118330989 7.84667146824 52% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 42.0642570281 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.05263157895 4.02192344571 101% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.6749064757 3.1217529195 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.35552631579 1.45093177766 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.878185022372 0.99851816184 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 39.0421686747 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.21 7.12997991968 73% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.186071428571 0.185688545393 100% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.155479426423 0.155154303396 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.0 47.1480722892 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.279220779221 0.305395592593 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.152603094671 0.189427763521 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.09 6.2937751004 81% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.13 3.39508032129 151% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.27 59.7592369478 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.921166666667 0.995987282463 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.506603944274 0.656000678711 77% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.7863216935 2.60215298798 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77311380496 1.56821927147 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27906976744 1.99336655568 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.321587662338 0.317803793328 101% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.