nonhabitual
- adjective
- /nɒnˈhæbɪtʃuəl/
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no habitual
- The athlete's performance improved on nonhabitual training days when he followed different techniques.
- nonhabitual conditions
Examples
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The nonhabitual conditions also yielded changes in segment durations, articulation rate, and speaking rate.
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Table 6 further indicates longer average pause durations in the nonhabitual conditions as compared with the habitual condition.
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As a result of the ordering of conditions, the cumulative effect of the clear condition on the following nonhabitual conditions is unknown.
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This trend of a greater F1 range in the nonhabitual conditions relative to habitual held for 11 of 12 speakers.
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As reported in Table 2, on average, lax vowels exhibited a greater percent change in vowel space area for the nonhabitual conditions when compared with the habitual condition, particularly for female speakers.
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In the present study, greater movement distances for the nonhabitual conditions are suggested by increased vowel space areas, F1 and F2 ranges, lambda values, and IDs.
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Interestingly, one speaker (M04) reduced almost all spectral distances for tense-lax vowel pairs in the nonhabitual conditions.
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Given the fact that all speakers increased tense and lax vowel space area in the nonhabitual conditions, findings for ID measures suggest that shifts in high tense and lax vowels contributed most to vowel space expansion.
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Post hoc analyses further indicated that F2 range was greater in all three nonhabitual conditions as compared with habitual (p < .001), and this trend held for 11 of 12 speakers.
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Because previous studies have suggested that lax vowels are more susceptible to the effects of speaking style than tense vowels (Picheny et al., 1985), the mean percent increase in vowel space area for the nonhabitual conditions relative to the habitual condition was calculated.
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Synonyms
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Happening only sometimes and not regularly
Happening at irregular times
Antonyms
How Habitual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word nonhabitual comes from the prefix non- meaning 'not' and the root habit meaning 'a regular action', like a daily habit, so you can imagine something that is not part of your routine. So nonhabitual means 'not done regularly' or 'only occasionally'.