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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"spoken word"”.
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Exploring active citizenship through spoken word poetry
… youth's active participation in formal politics. Spoken word poetry as an applied drama and theatre medium is of particular interest to this study and it argues that the art form can be used as a means of youth development in the area of formal politics. To illustrate its argument, the …
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The Spoken Word: God, Scripture, and Orality in Missions
This dissertation contends that the "Orality Movement" in missionary circles has a dearth of theological development and is therefore susceptible to doctrinal error leading to ministry practices that are potentially harmful to the spiritual health of newly planted churches. As a corrective, this …
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L2 gender facilitation and inhibition in spoken word recognition
… and inhibition in second language (L2) learners' spoken word recognition. Native speakers of languages that have grammatical gender are sensitive to gender marking when hearing and recognizing a word. Gender facilitation refers to when a given noun that is preceded by an adjective with the same …
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Lexical Organisation in Chinese Spoken Word Production: Evidence from Studies of Homophones
… lexical organisation in Mandarin Chinese spoken word production. Two main theoretical issues were investigated: The lexical representations of homophones in Chinese, and how activation is transmitted from lexical to phonological levels in Chinese spoken word production. The results of two …
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The effect of phonological working memory on children's Chinese spoken word learning
… can predict their ability to learn Chinese spoken words. Standard Chinese (Mandarin) is considered in this study and thus both terms (Chinese and Mandarin) will be used interchangeably. Participants included a total of 32 fourth grade American children who spoke English as a first language …
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Mechanisms of Spoken Word Recognition and Memory Encoding Studied through Competitor Priming
… comprehension in daily life and can adopt new words easily into their vocabulary. However, the underlying mechanisms under spoken word recognition and learning remain to be better understood. This thesis examines the neural and functional mechanisms of spoken word recognition and memory …
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The evolved radical feminism of spoken word : Alix Olson, C.C. Carter, and Suheir Hammad
… of power. However, several contemporary feminist spoken word poets are reconceptualizing radical feminism in their political projects, using the theories and activist strategies while paying attention to race, class, and sexuality. This piece traces some of the history and literature of radical …
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The Influence of Orthographic Experiences on the Development of Functional Phonological Unit in Spoken Word Production
… of the functional phonological unit in spoken word production in native Mandarin-speaking children. Functional phonological unit refers to the first selectable phonological unit after lexical selection in the planning of spoken word production. Previous research has shown that the …
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MEANS OF CONVEYANCE: SPOKEN WORD PEDAGOGY, HIP HOP LITERACIES, AND THE CHALLENGES OF FOSTERING POETRY SPACES
… learning. One popular practice is the use of “spoken word,” (Somers-Willett, 2009) a fiery brand of performative poetry popularized by artists from the hip hop music scene (Hill, 2009) and the competitive poetry slam circuit (Woods, 2008). A wealth of qualitative studies extol the virtues of …
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Understanding Experiences of High School Student Spoken Word Poetry Mentors of Color in a Large Midwest Urban District
… mentors of color working in an elementary spoken word poetry and performance after-school program in an urban Midwest district. More specifically the study investigates how the experiences of mentors of color in the program impacts their own academic achievement in school, their …
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Sizing up the competition: Quantifying the influence of the mental lexicon on auditory, visual, and audiovisual spoken word recognition
A central question in research on spoken word recognition is whether spoken words are recognized relationally, in the context of other words in the mental lexicon: McClelland & Elman, 1986; Norris, 1994; Luce & Pisoni, 1998). The current research evaluated metrics for measuring the influence of the …
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A case study of Tracie Morris's Project Princess
In this study, I explore the intertextuality in spoken word poetry using Tracie Morris’s spoken word poem Project Princess (1998) as a case study. My hypothesis is that the intertextuality in spoken word poetry is derived from its genealogical contributions. Using narrative inquiry, I investigate …
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"My Voice Rises on the Mic": a New Artographic Spoken Word Poetry Programme Portraying Two Young Offenders' Artistic Ways of Being in a Macedonian Prison
A vibrant live performance, spoken word poetry has enhanced people’s lives worldwide. Yet, it continues to be underrepresented among arts programmes in prison. Research interest in the arts resurfaced with the narrative and desistance criminological turn to study how the stories offenders tell …
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Slamming into the visceral pleasure of language : the value of disordered spaces and its impact on contemporary vocal landscpes
… on the stimulation of a physical response to spoken language. In a disordered space, vocal delivery is foregrounded as physical activity and has a re-patterning effect on the vocal landscapes of young actors. A disordered space co-opts elements from the vocal art forms of the popular …
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Slamming into the visceral pleasure of language: the value of disordered spaces and its impact on contemporary vocal landscapes
… on the stimulation of a physical response to spoken language. In a disordered space, vocal delivery is foregrounded as physical activity and has a re-patterning effect on the vocal landscapes of young actors. A disordered space co-opts elements from the vocal art forms of the popular …
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Her Body Breathes Into Mine
… to the discourse of lesbian poetry, within spoken word poetry and for-the-page poetry, these poems doubly voice silenced perspectives and identities. A large portion of the work is spoken word poetry, which seeks to make the subgenre more accessible to a larger audience. Set primarily in the …
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Discrete HMM isolated digit recognition
… develops an algorithm to perform isolated word recognition. A detailed description of the recognition system is presented in this thesis. We discuss detection of a spoken word from a recording using an end-point algorithm, extraction of the feature vectors from the sampled speech signal, …
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