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

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Average: 9 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 661.0 592.248995984 112% => OK
No of words: 175.0 155.574297189 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.77714285714 3.80514564318 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63713576256 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.91282673613 1.79077849142 107% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 93.7148594378 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.64 0.604071249207 106% => OK
Syllable count: 203.4 185.844578313 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0411350978961 0.0650381309087 63% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 175.0 68.503853103 255% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.97 25.9943957902 231% => 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: 36.0 42.0642570281 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.86111111111 4.02192344571 121% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.7723613131 3.1217529195 121% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.62583333333 1.45093177766 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.09987215166 0.99851816184 110% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 39.0421686747 102% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.89 7.12997991968 83% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.14725 0.185688545393 79% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.137785839258 0.155154303396 89% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.61 47.1480722892 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.294914285714 0.305395592593 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172251870639 0.189427763521 91% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 7.94979919679 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.07 6.2937751004 96% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.3 3.39508032129 9% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.97 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9995 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.66700016675 0.656000678711 102% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.91812572953 2.60215298798 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8676004669 1.56821927147 119% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17012206937 1.99336655568 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.316758017143 0.317803793328 100% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.