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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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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 748.0 592.248995984 126% => OK
No of words: 191.0 155.574297189 123% => OK
Chars per words: 3.91623036649 3.80514564318 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71756304063 3.525876923 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.7704078358 1.79077849142 99% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7148594378 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591623036649 0.604071249207 98% => OK
Syllable count: 249.3 185.844578313 134% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.16679236357 0.0650381309087 256% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 47.75 68.503853103 70% => OK
STD paragraph length: 38.2320219188 21.3332995233 179% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.9125 25.9943957902 57% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 10.8107963976 7.84667146824 138% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 42.0642570281 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.07407407407 4.02192344571 176% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.09991802923 3.1217529195 131% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.08222222222 1.45093177766 144% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.1366009539 0.99851816184 114% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 39.0421686747 79% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.84 7.12997991968 68% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.156129032258 0.185688545393 84% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.111113932211 0.155154303396 72% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.54 47.1480722892 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.264607329843 0.305395592593 87% => OK
STD word duration: 0.155750934712 0.189427763521 82% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.94979919679 38% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.65 6.2937751004 42% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.99 3.39508032129 59% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.65 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.994166666667 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.519698239732 0.656000678711 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.20201173512 2.60215298798 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.89438390612 1.56821927147 121% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23585278987 1.99336655568 112% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.43705582199 0.317803793328 138% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.