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  2. Selective mutism - Wikipedia

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    Gradually, another person is introduced into the situation. One example of stimulus fading is the sliding-in technique, [23] where a new person is slowly brought into the talking group. This can take a long time for the first one or two faded-in people but may become faster as the patient gets more comfortable with the technique.

  3. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]

  4. Semantic satiation - Wikipedia

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    James presented several experiments that demonstrated the operation of the semantic satiation effect in various cognitive tasks such as rating words and figures that are presented repeatedly in a short time, verbally repeating words then grouping them into concepts, adding numbers after repeating them out loud, and bilingual translations of words repeated in one of the two languages.

  5. Verbosity - Wikipedia

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    Verbosity, or verboseness, is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary. [1] The opposite of verbosity is succinctness. [dubious – discuss] Some teachers, including the author of The Elements of Style, warn against verbosity. Similarly Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, among others, famously avoided it.

  6. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. Turkish Proverb [5] One year's seeding makes seven years weeding; Only fools and horses work; Open confession is good for the soul. Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door; Other times other manners. Out of sight, out of mind

  7. Muted group theory - Wikipedia

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    Kramarae argues that English is a "[hu]man-made language" and that it "embodies the perspectives of the masculine more than the feminine," while supporting "the perceptions of white middle-class males." [23] Kramarae also explains that men's control over language has produced an abundance of derogatory words for women and their speech patterns ...

  8. Intelligibility (communication) - Wikipedia

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    In speech communication, intelligibility is a measure of how comprehensible speech is in given conditions. Intelligibility is affected by the level (loud but not too loud) and quality of the speech signal, the type and level of background noise, reverberation (some reflections but not too many), and, for speech over communication devices, the properties of the communication system.

  9. Talk:Actions speak louder than words - Wikipedia

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    The guidance says "This means that a quotation is visually on the page, but its relevance is not explained anywhere." Actions speak louder than words is a proverb that applies to all kinds of situations: love, war, business, Servilius Casca, etc. Simply creating this article, which already is supported by a dictionary entry, is not helpful.