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  • 1Speech perception — is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonetics and phonology in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology.… …

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  • 2Speech act — For the US Act, see SPEECH Act of 2010. Speech Act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. The contemporary use of the term goes back to John L. Austin s doctrine of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.… …

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  • 3may — I UK [meɪ] / US modal verb *** Summary: May is usually followed by an infinitive without to : It may rain. Sometimes may is used without a following infinitive: I d like to make one or two comments, if I may. May does not change its form, so the… …

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  • 4may — may1 [ mei ] modal verb *** May is usually followed by an infinitive without to : It may rain. Sometimes may is used without a following infinitive: I d like to make one or two comments, if I may. May does not change its form, so the third person …

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  • 5Speech-Language Pathology in School Settings — Speech language pathology is a fast growing profession that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, offers about 96,000 jobs in the United States alone. It relates to many educational disciplines such as communication sciences, linguistics …

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  • 6May 2010 — was the fifth month of that year. It began on a Saturday and ended after 31 days on a Monday. International holidays (See Holidays and observances, on sidebar at right, below) Portal:Current events This is an archived version of Wikipedia s… …

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  • 7Speech disfluency — Speech disfluencies are any of various breaks, irregularities, or non lexical vocables that occur within the flow of otherwise fluent speech. These include false starts, i.e. words and sentences that are cut off mid utterance, phrases that are… …

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  • 8May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis — The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis in the United Kingdom was a notable episode in World War II when the British Empire might have sued for peace. The role of Winston Churchill was instead decisive in the continuation of the war. In May 1940, the… …

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  • 9Checkers speech — Senator Richard Nixon delivers the Checkers speech Date September 23, 1952 Time 6:30 p.m. Location Los Angeles, California …

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  • 10Individual events (speech) — Individual events is a type of speech competition characterized by individuals competing in a variety of different events. These events span the areas of public speaking, acting, reading and interpretation. Sometimes confused with competitive… …

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