From the first 100 complete and intelligible utterances of each speech sample, only those utterances which contained a lexical verb were selected.
The first 50 spontaneous and fully intelligible utterances were omitted to approximate warm-up periods in each sample.
Only utterances which were complete (uninterrupted), intelligible, comprehensible and spontaneous were analysed.
Complete instructions are given for these exercises so that the book shall be intelligible in the absence of a teacher.
Thus, even the excised words from the high predictability sentences were more intelligible relative to those excised from the low predictability sentences.
The mistaken assumption was that the concepts of religion and politics can only be intelligible if they pick out some real essence.
The omission is a behavioral gap constituted by a deviation in the surrounding activity that makes it intelligible as human conduct.
It is only because human nature has not been perfected that such a consciousness of lack is intelligible.
