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Using the main points and examples from the reading, explain the differences between myths and legends. Then refer to the lecture to explain why Paul Bunyan would be considered a legend.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2019-10-08 | bishoy | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 724.0 592.248995984 122% => OK
No of words: 176.0 155.574297189 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.11363636364 3.80514564318 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.99676908451 1.79077849142 112% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 93.7148594378 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602272727273 0.604071249207 100% => OK
Syllable count: 229.5 185.844578313 123% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0750123131341 0.0650381309087 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 176.0 68.503853103 257% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.09 25.9943957902 227% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 42.0642570281 62% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.76923076923 4.02192344571 168% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.43159714487 3.1217529195 142% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.24346153846 1.45093177766 155% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.30458051704 0.99851816184 131% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 39.0421686747 69% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.34 7.12997991968 75% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.197777777778 0.185688545393 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.132953161714 0.155154303396 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.99 47.1480722892 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.289715909091 0.305395592593 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161098603971 0.189427763521 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.94979919679 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.44 6.2937751004 55% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.7 3.39508032129 21% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.09 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.984833333333 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.456930106617 0.656000678711 70% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.97850736165 2.60215298798 114% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7938737519 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07883898804 1.99336655568 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.4778718125 0.317803793328 150% => OK
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.