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paralinguistic
[ par-uh-ling-gwis-tik ]
adjective
- of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
Word History and Origins
Origin of paralinguistic1
Example Sentences
Melodies, though essential, act as vehicles to such paralinguistic production.
Tone indicators are paralinguistic signifiers used at the ends of statements to help readers fill in the blanks.
These “paralinguistic cues,” as they are known, can include pitch, volume, or how fast or slow someone speaks.
The authors set out to test two distinct possibilities for how paralinguistic aspects of speech might influence persuasion: confidence and detectability.
For detectability, the idea was that paralinguistic cues might instead be effective when they aren’t obvious and thus avoid people’s awareness of efforts to persuade them.
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