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Speech production is a highly complex and extremely rapid process, and thus research into the involved mental mechanisms proves to be difficult. [10] Investigating the audible output of the speech production system is a way to understand these mental mechanisms.
Derailment can often be manifestly caused by intense emotions such as euphoria or hysteria. Some of the synonyms given above ( loosening of association , asyndetic thinking ) are used by some authors to refer just to a loss of goal : discourse that sets off on a particular idea, wanders off and never returns to it.
Speech disorders affect roughly 11.5% of the US population, and 5% of the primary school population. [5] Speech is a complex process that requires precise timing, nerve and muscle control, and as a result is susceptible to impairments. A person who has a stroke, an accident or birth defect may have speech and language problems. [6]
A polytropic process is a thermodynamic process that obeys the relation: = where p is the pressure , V is volume , n is the polytropic index , and C is a constant. The polytropic process equation describes expansion and compression processes which include heat transfer.
Speech agnosia: Pure word deafness, or speech agnosia, is an impairment in which a person maintains the ability to hear, produce speech, and even read speech, yet they are unable to understand or properly perceive speech. These patients seem to have all of the skills necessary in order to properly process speech, yet they appear to have no ...
Apraxia of speech is the acquired form of motor speech disorder caused by brain injury, stroke or dementia. In this condition, the brain is unable to send the correct movement instructions to the muscles involved in speech, such as the lips, jaw, and tongue.
A disfluence or nonfluence is a non-pathological hesitance when speaking, the use of fillers (“like” or “uh”), or the repetition of a word or phrase. This needs to be distinguished from a fluency disorder like stuttering with an interruption of fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism".
Most steady-flow devices operate under adiabatic conditions, and the ideal process for these devices is the isentropic process. The parameter that describes how efficiently a device approximates a corresponding isentropic device is called isentropic or adiabatic efficiency. [12] Isentropic efficiency of turbines: