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TPO18-relict behavior
Using the example of the pronghorn and lion, explain the concept of a relict behavior.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-08-09 | Taniazehra | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-10 | Christine hanna | 78.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-06 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-09 | Elena Cristina | 61.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-06 | realbe | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 757.0 592.248995984 128% => OK
No of words: 193.0 155.574297189 124% => OK
Chars per words: 3.92227979275 3.80514564318 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.87405823933 1.79077849142 105% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 93.7148594378 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632124352332 0.604071249207 105% => OK
Syllable count: 235.8 185.844578313 127% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.107178337701 0.0650381309087 165% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 96.5 68.503853103 141% => OK
STD paragraph length: 81.5 21.3332995233 382% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 31.225 25.9943957902 120% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 25.515 7.84667146824 325% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 42.0642570281 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.70731707317 4.02192344571 117% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.54379181097 3.1217529195 146% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.47170731707 1.45093177766 101% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.22200734986 0.99851816184 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 45.0 39.0421686747 115% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.81 7.12997991968 110% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.173555555556 0.185688545393 93% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.118211778987 0.155154303396 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.74 47.1480722892 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.262901554404 0.305395592593 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.148484138989 0.189427763521 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.94979919679 50% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.85 6.2937751004 45% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.49 3.39508032129 44% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 62.45 59.7592369478 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.04083333333 0.995987282463 105% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.720576461169 0.656000678711 110% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.0904723779 2.60215298798 119% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.95356285028 1.56821927147 125% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.40441466299 1.99336655568 121% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.427126647668 0.317803793328 134% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
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.