Sentence examples for regular sound from inspiring English sources

It's a very pleasant, quiet and regular sound because we have solar-powered electric motors.

He went limp and I could hear the regular sound of his breathing.

Throughout "Gulf Music," Pinsky strikes a balance between free verse's individualism and the communalism implied by regular sound patterns.

Using the principle of regular sound change, scholars were able to reconstruct "ancestral" common forms from which the later forms found in particular languages could be derived.

At this juncture, the only concern for the SPL champions was the regular sound and view of smoke bombs from their section of the support.

A genetic relationship between the Northeast and Northwest languages seems probable, but the absence of regular sound correspondences between North and South Caucasian languages strongly suggests that the two northern divisions form a family separate from the southern group.

We participate in that local soundscape, including the guide chatter from frequent tour buses, the weekly rush of Wednesday matinee traffic, the queues outside for "The Book of Mormon," and the regular sound of horse-drawn carriages looking for tourists.

The initial sounds, although different, correspond regularly according to the pattern discovered by Jacob Grimm and named Grimm's law after him; the other differences can be explained by other regular sound changes.

In the work of the next 50 years the idea of sound change was made more precise, and, in the 1870s, a group of scholars known collectively as the Junggrammatiker ("young grammarians," or Neogrammarians) put forward the thesis that all changes in the sound system of a language as it developed through time were subject to the operation of regular sound laws.

Conventional methods of linguistic comparison applied between the main groups of the Khoisan languages have failed to yield regular sound correspondences, which would allow common roots to be reconstructed; and shared innovations in grammatical structure, which are regarded as the best source of evidence for postulating linguistic relationships are, frustratingly, absent.

It depends upon the principle of regular sound change a principle that, as explained above, met with violent opposition when it was introduced into linguistics by the Neogrammarians in the 1870s but by the end of the century had become part of what might be fairly described as the orthodox approach to historical linguistics.