speech discrimination

collocation in English

meaningsofspeechanddiscrimination

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speech
noun
uk
/spiːtʃ/us
/spiːtʃ/
the ability to talk, the activity of talking, or a piece of ...
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discrimination
noun[U]
uk
/dɪˌskrɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/dɪˌskrɪm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their race, gender, ...
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(Definition ofspeechanddiscriminationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspeech discrimination

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Thespeechdiscriminationtest was given after the glide tasks in a separate session.
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As the figure shows, age contributes a large proportion of variance (2) to vocabulary, letter knowledge andspeechdiscrimination(12, 25, and 11%, respectively).
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Together with letter knowledge, vocabulary, andspeechdiscrimination, age and these home literacy measures explain 47% of the variance in rhyme awareness.
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The parental familiarity with children's literature measure affects rhyme awareness, primarily via effects ofspeechdiscrimination.
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These measures includespeechdiscrimination, articulation, rapid naming, nonword repetition, and distinctness tasks.
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Teaching frequency and reading media each contribute about 2% of the variance tospeechdiscrimination, which is uncorrelated with phoneme awareness.
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In the correlational analyses,speechdiscriminationand nonword repetition stood out as the most significant correlates of rhyme awareness.
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Nonreaders with moderate or no phoneme awareness were not distinguished by theirspeechdiscriminationscores.
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Standardized tests ofspeechdiscrimination, language processing, and grammatical comprehension were also given pre- and posttraining.
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Our path analyses highlight the degree of overlap between some home literacy measures, age, vocabulary, letter knowledge, andspeechdiscrimination.
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In addition to the influence of some home literacy measures, vocabulary, letter knowledge, andspeechdiscriminationimpose significant independent weights on phonological awareness.
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Rather, one might say that theirspeechdiscriminationis relatively weak, and this weakness is revealed by making the task more taxing by adding noise.
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Items used for the articulation,speechdiscrimination, phoneme sensitivity, and decoding tasks.
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Although hearing aids can help, they are not a complete solution because ifspeechdiscriminationis affected, there may be the additional problem of sound distortion.
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Central auditory system plasticity associated withspeechdiscriminationtraining.
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There are two major indirect effects of the mediator variables on rhyme awareness: parental familiarity with children's literature viaspeechdiscriminationand age via letter knowledge.
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The bulk of chapter 4 is devoted to a summary review of studies that were designed to determine howspeechdiscriminationin infants develops in the first year.
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Reading-related media exposure and exposure to parents who are highly involved in their children's literature experiences also enhancesspeechdiscriminationskills, which are strongly linked with rhyme awareness.
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Thus, the interactions between the home literacy variables andspeechdiscriminationdo not contribute indirectly to an influence on phoneme awareness and are not included in the path diagram.
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