The phrase "sound type" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the category or classification of the sound made by a particular word or phrase in a sentence. It is often used in discussions about phonetics and linguistics. Example: The word "cat" falls under the sound type of "consonant-vowel-consonant" or CVC.
D. K. Arnott: Broken-down nag or sound type produced by training stables?
The results showed significant effects of number of targets on accuracy and sound type on oxyHb.
However, the relationship between the effector used to generate the sound, type of modulation and changes in perceptual sensitivity are unclear.
By the second or third week in May, bird sounds emerge as the dominant sound type, she said, consistent with field observations.
Such nouns constitute the class of "broken" plurals, while the remaining nouns, which use a long-vowel ending to mark plurality, are called the "sound" type.
The stringent aerodynamics in voiced sibilants and their less distinctive acoustic and perceptual features seem to make this sound type quite variable.
Using statistics and machine learning, Oliver has grouped those clips into 100 sound types, including bird sounds.
More abstractly, some direct "sound symbolism" has been seen between certain sound types and visual or tactile shapes.
You can search for a sound by typing in a phrase like "footsteps on gravel" or browse the Sound Types section for several hundred categorized examples ("burp" yielded 143 sonic belches).
A sequential concatenation of different sound types (music, sound effect) yielded the highest meaning recognition, whereas an overlapping arrangement of sounds of the same type (music, music) yielded the lowest meaning recognition.
A range of studies have demonstrated that larval fish and invertebrates may orient towards reef sound and perhaps even discern among sound types; however, there are very limited data on the distances over which acoustic cues might be used.
