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Mancillas, William R. Todd; Kibler, Robert J. – 1977
Recent research indicates that fourteen linguistic and paralinguistic patterns--thought to measure uncertainty, vagueness, dependence, and negative affect--discriminate between men's truth telling and deceptive language behavior. This study sought to determine if these same patterns also discriminate between women's truth telling and deceptive…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Analysis
Todd-Mancillas, William R. – 1980
Empirical studies that demonstrate probable gender biased perceptions resulting from the use of man-linked words and third-person, singular masculine pronouns are reviewed in this paper. Among the findings revealed by the review are: (1) there is a tendency for people to perceive man-linked words as more likely to refer to men than to women; (2)…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Higher Education, Language Attitudes, Language Research
O'Brien, Nancy, Ed. – 1985
The articles in this paper explore the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical research applications. Titles of the papers and their authors are as follows: (1) "Task Dynamic Coordination of the Speech Articulators: A Preliminary Model" (Elliot Saltzman); (2) "Some Observations…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Deafness
Nosenko, E. E. – 1975
The report contains a comparison of oral expression by the same experimental subjects under normal conditions and in a state of emotional stress. The study permits isolation of linguistic features of the formation of oral expression under emotional tension. This report is a translation of an article originally written in Russian. (NTIS/KM)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Articulation (Speech), Behavior Patterns, Distinctive Features (Language)
Wiemann, John M. – 1977
Five components of communication competence have been derived from research: affiliation/support, empathy, behavioral flexibility, social relaxation, and interaction management. This paper describes these dimensions of communication competence; it then reports on a study in which two college females judged by their peers to be effective…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Problems, Communication Skills
Geoghegan, William H. – 1973
This monograph represents the results of an attempt to construct at least one portion of a theoretical framework for describing and analyzing the performance routines used by the native actor to realize his competence to make culturally appropriate decisions. In general the concern is to describe in theoretical terms the structure and operation of…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
McGuigan, F. Joseph – 1972
The purpose of this research project is to specify critical events within a person during linguistic processing. The experiments reported here cover such topics as the effects of increased reading rate on covert processes, covert behavior as a direct electro-myographic measure of mediating responses, enhancement of speech perception by…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Electronic Equipment
Plaskon, Stephen Paul – 1979
A sample of 48 middle and lower class kindergarten and second grade students participated in a study to determine what speech adjustments school-age children made for listeners of different ages. Half the second grade subjects learned about two performance tasks--a board game and constructing columns of colored blocks--from the researcher, after…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Child Language
Rogers, Sinclair – 1975
Twenty-four children aged five and twenty-four children aged six were interviewed individually three times during a calendar year. It was found that not only did the children's language develop over the period, as judged syntactically and lexically, but they also showed an increasingly fluent control over their own style. All the children…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Language, Concept Formation
Haas, Adelaide – 1978
Evidence shows that there are differences in the ways in which men and women speak. It has also been well documented that females are generally ahead of males in language acquisition and are less often diagnosed as speech pathologic. A review of the research gives some indication of the reasons for the development of sex differences in spoken…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Child Development, Child Language