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Appendix
Questionnaire For a research study
Instruction:
Please read the following imagine yourself in the following situations and give a full response by using your usual speech.
Personal Information (tick) Gender male female
1- You forgot your little son to buy him a new bike.
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2-You break in (interrupt) without waiting for the end of the speech turn.
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3-You are a waiter to 5-star restaurant, you bring totally wrong order to a customer.
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4-You wanted to ask your friend for $500 you are critically in need of that money.
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5- You come late for important lecture by your professor.
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6-your best friend invited you to his birthday party, you didn’t go there.
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7-You have been given assignment as obligatory homework. You forgot to write it.
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8-Yesterday, you were in a rush and you pumped into a sick man. You hurt him
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9-You borrowed your friend's laptop. You carelessly broke it.
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10-You promised your aunt to take him to hospital. For some reason you couldn’t do that
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