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Varying techniques are implemented by trained singers to perceptually achieve evenness of tone. The purpose of this study is to investigate those who achieve this evenness effectively through examining the vocal fold closure and vocal...
Rhetoric is an agent of the kind of persuasion designed to produce conviction. Conviction is the motivation of Christianity as a Social Movement. The New Testament book of Acts is the harbor for the launching of the movement of...
The purpose of this study is to describe how Velopharyngeal Insufficiency (VPI) presented in a professional woodwind player and the corrective measures that were taken to fix the problem. In addition, this project examines the issue from...
A smooth register transition is a fundamental aspect of the classically trained singing voice. The purpose of this study is to examine the physiological and acoustical bases of the vocal techniques used by trained female singers to...
This thesis examines the rhetoric employed by President George W. Bush in the period leading up the American-led invasion of Iraq. Specifically, this thesis posits that the appeals to obligation so prevalently featured in Bush's oratory...
This thesis addresses the benefits of orality in the composition classroom when audience is more apparent for writing students. Looking to the site of the black church as a literacy event and viewing the semon as a community text and...
The purpose of this study was to examine a task designed to measure narrative structure awareness. Narrative structure awareness is the ability to recognize and organize the components of story grammar. The research question asked was:...
The purpose of this study was to examine adolescents' use of persuasive language in both oral and written contexts. Previous authors have noted that persuasive discourse is one of the most difficult language genres to master. The...
The number of repetitions needed for intrarater reliability of speech stimuli
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The purpose of this investigation was to determine if different numbers of stimuli repetitions affect the intrarater reliability of the scale ratings of speech samples. The research question was: How many repetitions of a stimulus does...
Purpose: Research over the past several decades has revealed that spelling is a complex linguistic process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the spelling abilities of first grade children using an analysis tool that...
Correlation of Performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Generative Semantic Subtests of the EFA-4 (Examining for Aphasia-4) in Persons with Memory and/or Communication Difficulty
Purpose: To examine the relationship between scores on the Generative Semantic Naming Subtests of the EFA-4 and the MoCA in persons with memory and/or communication difficulty. Methods: Six adults with varying diagnoses of memory and/or...
This study used data from the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS; Good & Kaminski, 2002) oral reading fluency (ORF) probes to examine variation among different ORF score types (i.e., the median of three passages, ...
Dichotic listening exercises prove a non-invasive means for investigators to test language lateralization. A dichotic listening exercise involves the simultaneous presentation of two different discrete syllables to the left and right...
Disordered stress has been proposed as a potential diagnostic marker of CAS. This study examines the use of the durational aspect of stress, particularly vowel and consonant duration, in distinguishing children with suspected CAS from...
Speech is the most common and the most fundamental tool used for communication. It has done more for man's progress than any other single factor. Yet this high development of man has been relatively ignored, and for generations speech...
Letter from James Byrnes to Miss Louise Richardson, March 15, 1957
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James Byrnes writes to Louise Richardson after talking to Mr. Sam Latimer who told Byrnes of Richardson's "kind reference" to his speech and is sending her some copies.
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