Sentence examples for arbitrary sounds from inspiring English sources

Further, it suggested that humans share with other animals a crucial feature of language -- arbitrary sounds that have referential content".

He referred to experiments by the German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt that showed that the longest group of arbitrary sounds that a person could identify without error lasted about six seconds.

In practice it made for a cool sequence of seemingly arbitrary sounds, fascinating chiefly because of the sensual quality of notes hung against a contrasting silence, and for the tension of not being able to intuit what might come next.

As members of the species Homo sapiens, each human exhibits a very special "directed movement" skill: that of so directing the musculature of their six speech organs that they can produce patterned arrangements of arbitrary sounds to "linguistically represent" their environment.

A spoken language of arbitrary sounds and a written language are then gradually invented by users of the language of action (Essay II.i.1. §§5 8).

To achieve this in speech, the brain must be able to dynamically associate arbitrary sounds to motor activity involved in gesture.

The phon scale is partially subjective in that the judgment of a listener is involved in comparing any arbitrary sound with the physically defined reference in order to establish its loudness in phons.

"So, from a learning perspective, it's paradoxical that most words have an arbitrary sound-to-meaning relationship". A study published by Christiansen and two colleagues in the August Journal of Experimental Psychology: General provides new insight into this paradox.

"One group of subjects were asked to learn novel words for objects and actions with a completely arbitrary sound-meaning relationship; another group learned words with systematic relationships; a third group had to learn words whose beginnings were arbitrary but their endings were systematic," Christiansen said.

This paper describes a new approach to the identification of arbitrary sound insulation systems with random excitations, for practical situations in which the observations of input and transmitted (output) signals are strongly contaminated by external additive noise in the reception and transmission rooms.

Although there are large databases of isolated speech, it is impractical to find or build large databases of isolated recordings for every arbitrary sound.