0 a person who talks a lot, too much, or in a particular way: --
1 a person who talks a lot, too much, or in a particular way: --
I’m not much of a talker (= a person who is comfortable speaking).
Because speaking rate influences the absolute durations of vowels, long to short vowel ratios were calculated for each talker.
In the third phase, the listeners heard each of the talkers reading a different, novel sentence.
The second phase was identical to the first, except that the listeners heard all of the talkers reading the second calibration sentence.
Neither time nor the scaffolding condition enabled the late talkers to narrow the gap between their narrative skills and those of the comparison peers.
He found that performance was better when the talkers and listeners shared a dialect than when the talkers and listeners were from different dialect regions.
Rather, the late bloomers' use of cognitive terms mirrored that of the whole late talker group.
The late talkers in this sample were also delayed in their ability to use propositional complements.
Many late talkers have age-adequate receptive language, but some have delays in both receptive and expressive language.
