nonverbal behaviour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnon-verbalandbehaviour
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non-verbal
adjective
uk/ˌnɒnˈvɜː.bəl/us/ˌnɑːnˈvɝː.bəl/
not using words, or not relating to the use ...
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behaviour
noun
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
the way that ...
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Beyond words: older people with dementia using and interpretingnonverbalbehaviour.
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One piece of information that is conspicuously missing isnonverbalbehaviourthat naturally accompanies speech.
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The general assumption is thatnonverbalbehaviouris merely ' add-on ' information.
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Beyond words : older people with dementia using and interpretingnonverbalbehaviour.
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The importance of looking at nonverbal behaviours in conflicts as indexicals of self was readily apparent in our data.
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Thus, it is likely that children continue to use nonverbal behaviours throughout development to understand pragmatic meaning.
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Beyond their role in manual gestures, they are likely to be involved in the production and interpretation of other nonverbal behaviours in primate social interactions.
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Given this research, it seems surprising that many psycholinguists have not also considered the role that nonverbal behaviours play in pragmatic processing.
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Thus, there are sound reasons to believe that nonverbal behaviours such as eye gaze and hand gesture play a significant role in pragmatic comprehension.
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However, valuable information about an utterance's meaning may be contained within the communicative act itself - in the nonverbal behaviours that naturally and pervasively accompany speech.
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The research findings provide new evidence that the self and personae in dementia are indexed by both verbal and nonverbal behaviours.
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Nonverbal behaviours add important information to a communicator's speech.
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This relationship suggests that speech and nonverbal behaviours may interact in a dynamic and synergistic fashion in comprehension.
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Thus, nonverbal behaviours may serve as an important link between speech and context.
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Together, these findings indicate that although some residents could not demonstrate self verbally, the integrity of self was effectively conveyed through nonverbal behaviours and forms of address.
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