Sentence examples for present listener from inspiring English sources

But Gregerson's poems, with their frequent pauses and hesitations, imply a present listener whose silent cues the poems incorporate.

The danger in this kind of diverse programming is that it can present listeners with an indigestible smorgasbord of possibilities.

In two experiments we tested these hypotheses by presenting listeners with looming and receding sound sources and asking them to judge how fast they were moving.

To achieve these goals, we presented listeners with prime-target pairs of tri-syllabic words sung on 3-note melodies and recorded behavioral and electrophysiological data while they performed a same/different task.

They presented listeners with context questions either comprising the wh-pronoun 'who' or 'what'what

We presented listeners with competing auditory streams whose amplitude varied independently and a visual stimulus with varying radius, while manipulating the cross-modal temporal relationships.

As a further control, we presented listeners with isolated versions of each syllable in a two-alternative forced-choice adaptive task and found no effect of lexicality on gap detection [t(15) = 0.28, p = 0.780 for experiment one tokens; t(15) = 1.56, p = 0.139 for experiment two tokens; see the Supplemental Experimental Procedures].

Asked to present a listener poll of the greatest duets in history, Jupitus lost his rag when an internet campaign meant Fairytale of New York by Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues was kept off the top spot by an obscure tune by Sinead O'Connor and the Chieftains.

Vocalist Castrinos says the band focuses "intently on the present", offering listeners in that moment something that "can give them strength of feeling, an emotion, even for the length of one song".

To achieve their high level of performance, the speakers feature custom designed mid-woofers with a four-inch diameter and exhibit a deep, wide soundstage that presents the listener with an engaging, palpable sense of realism.

While this was not a focus of the present study, listeners' perceptions of the attended features were invariant in the face of fluctuating amplitude.