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  2. University of Houston - Wikipedia

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    With UH fans holding up the new sign of Cougar pride, UH played UT to a 20–20 tie. They didn't meet again until 1976, the first year UH was a member of the Southwest Conference . In front of a record crowd at Texas' Memorial Stadium, UH defeated UT 30–0, a rout that signaled the beginning of the end for legendary Texas coach Darrell Royal .

  3. Speech disfluency - Wikipedia

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    A disfluence or nonfluence is a non-pathological hesitance when speaking, the use of fillers (“like” or “uh”), or the repetition of a word or phrase. This needs to be distinguished from a fluency disorder like stuttering with an interruption of fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism".

  4. Filler (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In Afrikaans, ah, um, and uh are common fillers (um, and uh being in common with English). In American Sign Language, UM can be signed with open-8 held at chin, palm in, eyebrows down (similar to FAVORITE); or bilateral symmetric bent-V, palm out, repeated axial rotation of wrist (similar to QUOTE).

  5. Backchannel (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A non-lexical backchannel is a vocalized sound that has little or no referential meaning but still verbalizes the listener's attention, and that frequently co-occurs with gestures. In English, sounds like uh-huh and hmm serve this role. Non-lexical backchannels generally come from a limited set of sounds not otherwise widely used in content ...

  6. University of Houston System - Wikipedia

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    Philip G. Hoffman, first chancellor of UH System. The University of Houston, founded in 1927, entered the state system of higher education in 1963. The evolvement of a multi-institution University of Houston System came from a recommendation in May 1968 which called for the creation of a university near NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center to offer upper-division and graduate-level programs. [11]

  7. List of University of Houston people - Wikipedia

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    Chair, UH Mechanical Engineering Department; Director of Applied Research Hub, Texas Center for Superconductivity: Leon Thomsen: Earth and atmospheric sciences UH professor of geophysics, proposed Thomsen parameters to characterize transversely isotropic materials Adam Thrasher: Health and Human Performance Author of Space Moose [354] [355 ...

  8. UH - Wikipedia

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    "Uh", a speech disfluency in English; University hospital. List of university hospitals; Ukrainian hryvnia, a currency; Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Northern Ireland; Unang Hirit, a Philippine morning TV show; Utility helicopter, an aircraft type

  9. Formulaic language - Wikipedia

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    Formulaic language (previously known as automatic speech or embolalia) is a linguistic term for verbal expressions that are fixed in form, often non-literal in meaning with attitudinal nuances, and closely related to communicative-pragmatic context. [1]