The digger's name was the verbal signal that another woman's body had been found.

It was one of those soft verbal signals: God gave you all the right gifts, young man.

We can classify most speech or verbal signals under five functions:

Usually our verbal signals are reinforced or supported by non-verbal ones.

If our work goals are involved, our perceptions of verbal and non-verbal signals become more distorted.

If we take these characteristics of perception into an organizational setting, then the verbal and non-verbal signals still provide data for interpersonal relationships.

Accommodators are sensitive to the emotional states, body language, and verbal signals of the other parties.

Trains must stop here to wait for visual or verbal signal to proceed.

Since then, other studies have analyzed the relative contribution of verbal and nonverbal signals under more naturalistic situations.

Striped polecats have been known to communicate with each other using a vast myriad of verbal signals and calls.