expressiveness

expressive | American Dictionary

expressive
adjective
us/ɪkˈspres·ɪv/
showing your feelings in your voice, behavior, or appearance:
His singing was beautiful and expressive.

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The temporal expressive power of this system is limited to sequences, disjunction, and iterations of actions and each action is instantaneous.
On the other hand, the ' expressive-affective ' components were modified in their speech whether the children had siblings or not.
Thus, children with a median expressive vocabulary of 265 words extend verbs in accord with the principle of extendibility.
Functional dependences are more expressive than the overlapping restriction; it remains to be seen if this extra generality is useful in practice.
The challenge is to develop a small set of adequately expressive high-level coordination constructs.
We hypothesized that this explanation also fitted our data on expressive scale, but other investigations would be necessary to verify it.
Individual differences in early vocabulary development : redefining the referential-expressive distinction.
The pattern of results should be different for expressive vocabulary.
In the expressive vocabulary test, children were asked to label the target items.
Answering labelling questions, however, should have a powerful effect on expressive vocabulary.
Moreover, there is clear evidence that children's phonotactic constraints influence their acquisition of expressive vocabulary during the earliest stages of word learning.
Few studies have attempted to disentangle the influence of phonotactic probability from that of neighbourhood density in the acquisition of expressive vocabulary.
Thus, the effect of phonotactic probability on production and expressive vocabulary is similar.
More immediate is the continued sense of vividly characterized episodes drawing us into new expressive areas.
Their ensemble is superbly precise, yet their playing evinces expressive understanding as well.
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