The voice, when it enters has a thin filtered quality as if over a tannoy or poor-qualitysoundsystem.From theCambridge English Corpus
Before then, thesoundsystemof language had been regarded essentially as a sequence of speech sounds.From theCambridge English Corpus
The album was also re-mixed for quadraphonic stereo, the now infamoussoundsystemthat was then just being introduced.From theCambridge English Corpus
With exception of their productivesoundsystem, these children are normal in all other linguistic and non-linguistic aspects of development.From theCambridge English Corpus
Distinctive features, in turn, isolate the precise phonological properties that are contrastive in the productivesoundsystem.From theCambridge English Corpus
That is to identify lawful and potentially universal relationships between clusters and other properties of thesoundsystem.From theCambridge English Corpus
These experiments also led her to develop a new kind of sonic performance space, using five microphones distributed through a quadraphonicsoundsystem.From theCambridge English Corpus
Theirsoundsystem, however, is extremely impoverished, consisting of a severely reduced consonantal repertoire.From theCambridge English Corpus
One would expect that reductions found in spontaneous speech may influence diachronic language variation and change in thesoundsystemand the lexicon.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thesoundsystemworked in subtle ways to shape individual and collective identities, and to reinforce patterns of authority.From theCambridge English Corpus
These laws introduced changes in thesoundsystemof a given language by gradually unfolding into a certain direction over a long period of time.From theCambridge English Corpus
As such, a child might have evidenced 0, 1, or 2 liquids in thesoundsystem.From theCambridge English Corpus
In the extreme case of fixed format, or 'tape' music, all sound is predetermined ahead of time and only the space andsoundsystemdetermine variation in performance.From theCambridge English Corpus
Because the children are highly unintelligible due to the prolonged static nature of their phonology, they warrant direct training and instruction to induce change in thesoundsystem.From theCambridge English Corpus
The essential observation here is that low ranking of a constraint on faithfulness to a particular feature results in phonologically inert behaviour of that feature within thesoundsystem.From theCambridge English Corpus
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