speech pattern

How To Use speech pattern In A Sentence

• Traditional prosody describes the rhythm of poetry as the meaningful counterpoint of speech pattern against a fixed abstract meter.
• He sounds surprisingly young and eager, almost boyish in his speech patterns. Times, Sunday Times
• He told his story straight, in his harsh, crackling voice, speaking in the local dialect with the local speech pattern of glottal stops and swallowed words and sentences spoken on an ingoing breath. A Small Death in the Great Glen
• Compared with most native English speech patterns, Hiberno-English speech has longer and swifter rhythmic runs, with a far higher proportion of unstressed to stressed syllables.
• A more imaginative child is both more likely to become who he or she really is and less likely to dismiss a cousin or friend with ticks, perseverative behaviors, odd speech patterns or difficulty making eye contact. Michele Somerville: It Takes a (Christmas) Village to Raise a Child With Autism
• She grew up in Soviet Moscow, a supposedly monolingual society, but she remembers noticing and being fascinated by the range of accents and speech patterns she heard.
• The rest of us, who find her circumlocutory speech patterns as abrasive as nails on a blackboard, are doomed to a future of listening to her butcher the English language. CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2008
• He sounds surprisingly young and eager, almost boyish in his speech patterns. Times, Sunday Times
• Hence, even when I tell the truth, my speech patterns are pretty set in this way and I speak in short, terse responses and evasive answers. Catch Phrases That May Tip You Off To A Lie | Lifehacker Australia
• He still has this erratic speech pattern, the fluttering of the eyes, and he's the most appalling speechmaker.