Sentence examples for tonal pattern from inspiring English sources

The tonal pattern of a painting is shown in a monochrome reproduction.

Although line length and tonal pattern were still governed by a given tune, extra words could be inserted to make the lyrics livelier and to clarify the relationship between phrases and clauses of the poem.

Although we rule out the possibility that the tonal pattern under investigation is a phonological alternation, we propose that the complex coarticulatory and perceptual mechanisms that underlie it could account for the development of other instances of regressive tone sandhi.

This single tonal pattern is then timed according to the number of morae in the syllable: there is a rise in pitch in the first mora of a word, whereas in the second mora, there is a fall.

An investigation by Schulte-Korne et al. (1999) using complex tonal pattern that differed in temporal pattern but not frequency, showed that dyslexics have a significant pre-attentive deficit in processing of rapid temporal patterns.

Tonal patterns are often complicated by what are known as "floating tones".

Intimately bound up with their texts, his songs resist catchy melody and obvious tonal patterns; embedded in shifting harmonies (another frequent epithet is "post-Wagnerian"), they trace in music every nuance of the words they set.

Lee Etheredge fills sheets of paper with typewritten words to form tight, all-over grids that resemble stitchwork, with tonal patterns created through manipulations of spacing and alternating upper- and lower-case letters.

It exploited antithetical construction and contrasting tonal patterns to the limit by requiring pairs of columns consisting of long paragraphs, one responding to the other, word for word, phrase for phrase, sentence for sentence.

"I am more interested in creating fresh, spontaneous, singing melodic lines than in the factory-made tonal patterns of industrial civilization or the splotches and spots of sound hurled at random on a canvas of imaginary silence".

Ci, Wade-Giles romanization tz'u, in Chinese poetry, song form characterized by lines of unequal length with prescribed rhyme schemes and tonal patterns, each bearing the name of a musical air.