contains the following propositional network:
There was a woman.
There was a man.
There was a ring.
The ring was expensive.
The ring contained a ruby.
The ruby was large.
The woman gave the ring to the man.
The process of identifying the propositional networks underlying sentences
or texts is thought to be a basic part of language comprehension.proprioceptive feedbackn
feedback involving muscular movements which are used in the production
of speech and which can be used in monitoring speech.
Hearing-impaired people make use of this form of feedback rather than
auditory feedback.
prose-model approachn
see process approach
prosodic featuresn
sound characteristics which affect whole sequences of syllables. They may
involve, for instance, the relative loudness or duration of syllables, changes
in the pitch of a speaker’s voice (see tone^2 ) and the choice of pitch level
(see key^2 ).
see also intonation patterns, prominence, suprasegmentals
prosodyn prosodicadj
(in phonetics) a collective term for variations in loudness, pitch and
speech rhythm.
prospective samplen
see sample
protocol n
a sample containing observation(s) of a phenomenon which is being
described, observed, or measured. For example, if a researcher were studying
the use of a grammatical feature, and recorded a person’s speech for purposes
of analysis, a transcription of the recording could be called a protocol.
A completed test script and responses of subjects to an experiment are also
sometimes called protocols. The term “protocol” is often also used for a
proprioceptive feedback