Sentence examples for rather than contour from inspiring English sources

Further category assimilation studies with a range of tone languages of differing natures for example, African tone languages, which tend to involve grammatical determinants and whose tone inventories mostly comprise level rather than contour tones (Childs, 2003)—will assist in defining the limits of the applicability of the PAM to lexical tone contrasts.

[For reviews, see [ 23], [ 43- 46]] In this regard, the present results lead to a slight modification of the proposal that synchrony contributes to the analysis of boundaries, in that isolated dots were used rather than contours.

Cortical responsiveness to visual stimulation at different angles is considerably homogeneous and preferentially activated by cardinal contours rather than by contours at oblique angles (oblique effect [44]), with response peaks around 0° and 90° orientations.

Moreover, their intonation in English consists of sustained tone movements rather than pitch contour movements.

For example, it is important to classify a characteristic region rather than the contour of a vehicle.

Had these women focused on the content of their character rather than the contours of their face, they would likely be alive today.

Nevertheless, in paintings from this period, such as The Umbrellas (c. 1883) and many depictions of bathers, Renoir emphasized volume, form, contours, and line rather than colour and brushstroke.

We attributed fluctuations in the measured contour lengths mostly to limitations of backbone tracing, rather than actual absolute contour length fluctuations.

So does workaday service to sculpture, in studies rather than pictures: hard contour lines popping images off the paper.

Parametric models allow for a faster evolution that is less prone to getting stuck in local minima as the energy is minimised directly by manipulating a few parameters rather than the entire contour.

The method presented in this work is based on a parametric function, which offers a number of benefits: Parametric models allow for a faster evolution that is less prone to getting stuck in local minima as the energy is minimised directly by manipulating a few parameters rather than the entire contour.