Sentence examples for phonetic description from inspiring English sources

In some circumstances a phonetic symbol can be simply an abbreviation for a phonetic description.

According to the Birds of North America Online, the phonetic description goes, whip-poor-will-a-will-e-zee-zee-zee.

The phonemic specification of a word or utterance was held to determine uniquely its phonetic realization (except for free variation), and, conversely, the phonetic description of a word or utterance was held to determine uniquely its phonemic analysis.

This was followed by, a phonetic description of the dialect of Meenawannia near Glenties, County Donegal. is predominantly a historical account, but has some description of modern dialects as well.

Any possible influences of lenited vowels on neighbouring consonants would favour a phonetic description, most probably within the gestural framework drawing additionally from aerodynamic facts, whereas the complete elision of vowels whose presence is undetected in adjacent consonants would support the phonological interpretation.

In this view, a grammar may be divided into three parts: the syntactic component, which is a set of rules describing the ways in which words may form sentences; the lexicon, which is a list of all the words and the categories to which they belong; and the phonological component, which is a set of rules that relates phonetic descriptions of sentences to the syntactic and lexical descriptions.

The shapes are largely consistent with previously reported Thai phonetic descriptions.

However, all these studies are only based on phonetic descriptions of loud-calls and did not make a systematic analysis of the acoustic structure or a direct comparison between acoustic structure and genetic relatedness.

In 1968, Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle stated that nearer 30 features are needed for a proper description of the phonetic, and linguistic, capabilities of man.

So, in no particular order, here are five that for me illustrate Tolkien's description of the phonetic pleasure of words as "simpler, deeper-rooted, and yet more immediate" than any practical or structural understanding of their sense.

Additionally, the interstimulus interval (ISI) was varied as a control factor, 500 or 1,500 ms (see Werker & Tees, 1984, for a description of possible phonetic and phonemic processing levels associated with these ISIs).