Speaking topics in text
Explain how the example in the lecture illustrates agonistic behavior
TPO 40 - Question 4
Agonistic Behavior
Within certain animal species, conflicts sometimes arise over resources such as territory or food. To resolve these conflicts, two animals of the same species may engage in agonistic behavior. With this type of aggressive behavior, the animals participate in a physical competition that demonstrates which animal is more powerful. While each animal attempts to prove its strength in the competition, it typically does so without harming the other animal once the winner is established, that animal gains access to the desired resources, while the weaker animal surrenders and leaves the area.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 618.0 592.248995984 104% => OK
No of words: 157.0 155.574297189 101% => OK
Chars per words: 3.93630573248 3.80514564318 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53976893118 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.75463545731 1.79077849142 98% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 93.7148594378 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630573248408 0.604071249207 104% => OK
Syllable count: 189.0 185.844578313 102% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0157641843044 0.0650381309087 24% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 39.25 68.503853103 57% => OK
STD paragraph length: 46.6603418333 21.3332995233 219% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 14.7975 25.9943957902 57% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 18.632364819 7.84667146824 237% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 42.0642570281 78% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.75757575758 4.02192344571 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.09476883192 3.1217529195 99% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.65484848485 1.45093177766 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.02578904208 0.99851816184 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 39.0421686747 74% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.82 7.12997991968 96% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.235172413793 0.185688545393 127% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.195688363964 0.155154303396 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.31 47.1480722892 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.294968152866 0.305395592593 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.165812510972 0.189427763521 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.21 6.2937751004 115% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.08 3.39508032129 120% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.19 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9865 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.489947626288 0.656000678711 75% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.65247508025 2.60215298798 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.67257982767 1.56821927147 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1377672209 1.99336655568 107% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.33880989172 0.317803793328 107% => OK
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.