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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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| 2016-08-29 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-02-27 | -vv- | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-07 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-14 | pashmina hira | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-19 | Valeria1949 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Response to the Plan for an Additional Lighting SystemI oppose the university’s plan to purchase an additional outdoor lighting system. The university says it would make our historic campus more attractive by illuminating our buildings at night. However 83
- The professor discussed the characteristics of two kinds of birds of prey On the basis of these characteristics explain whether either bird would be categorized as raptor 90
- Using points and examples from the talk, explain the two possible ways early humans discovered how to use fire to release copper from solid rock. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 758.0 592.248995984 128% => OK
No of words: 196.0 155.574297189 126% => OK
Chars per words: 3.86734693878 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74165738677 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84688239851 1.79077849142 103% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 93.7148594378 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540816326531 0.604071249207 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 239.4 185.844578313 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.116137457516 0.0650381309087 179% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 49.0 68.503853103 72% => OK
STD paragraph length: 40.8105378548 21.3332995233 191% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.8575 25.9943957902 57% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.763699195 7.84667146824 150% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 42.0642570281 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.25925925926 4.02192344571 180% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.48108744815 3.1217529195 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.13037037037 1.45093177766 147% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.944345673848 0.99851816184 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 39.0421686747 64% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.15 7.12997991968 58% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.166 0.185688545393 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.120764233116 0.155154303396 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.3 47.1480722892 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.261734693878 0.305395592593 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.145581350497 0.189427763521 77% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.0 6.2937751004 64% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.72 3.39508032129 51% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.43 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9905 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.420662964833 0.656000678711 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.29799764429 2.60215298798 127% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.78361097089 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.06627680312 1.99336655568 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.419480413265 0.317803793328 132% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.