At the heart of their pitch: an emphasis on the independence of the boards themselves.
She and her colleagues analyze prosody cues like pitch, pauses, emphasis and volume in natural rather than staged situations, for instance, as people talk to one another in meetings or on the telephone, or when they try to get information from a computer at a call center.
But if I tell a friend that I was waked by a scary noise in the night, my eyes, my hands, the muscles of my torso, my pitch, volume and emphasis will express the shock of "bolt" and the movement of "upright".
As a result, languages seem to adapt to this human feature by becoming more abstract in such a way that words are invariant under changes in tempo, pitch range, or emphasis.
And while there are lots of apps and gadgets on the market to help users track their diet or fitness, Nutrino's pitch places more emphasis on its recommendation algorithms — two years in the making, apparently — which it claims enable it to truly personalise its nutritional/meal planning features.
When speaking, a candidate is able to alter pitch, cadence and emphasis, which can make her seem smarter in real life than in her cover letter.
While slow, at times uneven grass pitches encourage an emphasis on individual skills, faster Astroturf pitches are more conducive to passing and team-wide strategies.
Scelsi's Anâgâmin is a typical meditative product of his middle years, built out of a close-packed aggregate of pitches that is constantly subject to tiny inner shifts of emphasis and pitch, so that everything seems to be happening beneath the surface.
In outlining its grievance, the union told Major League Baseball that emphasis on pitch counts could affect the way umpires call pitches late in a game if the count is high and in subsequent games when an umpire "will feel pressure to allow fewer pitches" if his previous game had an above-average pitch count.
It comes with emphasis and pitch, too.
