Sentence examples for sound segments from inspiring English sources

Phonemes may be thought of as roughly equivalent to the sound segments known as consonants and vowels, and combinations of these segments make up syllables.

They do this by making readers do two things: breaking syllables into sound segments and clustering these segments into bigger, abstract, flexible sound units.

In speech, we call these noise-excitated sound segments "voiceless fricatives".

Forkheim et al. [39], investigated to detect only wheezes in isolated lung sound segments.

Phonetics is committed to consonants, syllables, words and sound segments, the human vocal tract and its parts (the tongue has five).

Following a reviewer's request, we point out in this context that the assumption of a "subtraction mechanism" which underlies speech perception and allows listeners to compensate for variation in sound segments is still compatible with variation-driven sound change.

Rarefaction, in the physics of sound, segment of one cycle of a longitudinal wave during its travel or motion, the other segment being compression.

Overall our findings highlight the importance of sound segmenting skills in second language vocabulary acquisition.

The basic idea behind this approach is the following: If listeners interpret a certain aspect of a sound segment as being due to an external factor, then they "subtract" this aspect from the sound segment when identifying its phoneme category.

(ii) SIF-ELM: the original SIF features of each sound segment were directly fed to the ELM classifier for classification, and then, only the second-stage ensemble learning was implemented to generate the final decision on all segments.

(iii) ELM-AE: the single-column ELM-AE was implemented on SIF features for each sound segment with the ELM classifier, and then, only the second-stage ensemble learning was used to get the final decision on all segments.