acoustic characteristics

collocation in English

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acoustic
adjective
uk
/əˈkuː.stɪk/
us
/əˈkuː.stɪk/
relating to sound ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
us
/ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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In male singers and altos, who are trained according to the western classical opera tradition, an importantacousticcharacteristicis the singer's formant.
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Finally, a series of regression analyses was carried out to examine whichacousticcharacteristic(s) of the stimuli best predicted the presence of a final vowel in the responses.
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Finally, the effects of speaker gender on acoustic characteristics of vowels and on the perception of prominence-related changes, observed in this study, cannot be ignored.
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Stressed and unstressed syllables also differ in their acoustic characteristics.
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In the concerto, all these acoustic characteristics of berimbau sounds were explored in many different ways.
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Altering the acoustic characteristics of their speech introduced a disparity between what subjects expected to hear and what they actually perceived.
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It is necessary to account for this differential use of the acoustic characteristics of speech.
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The results presented here suggest that it is not really the apical/nonapical distinction that is relevant but the acoustic characteristics of the preceding or following consonant.
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Their findings showed that prelinguistic vocalizations were composed of a hierarchy of grouping structures with internal cohesiveness, as reflected by acoustic characteristics and in adult perception.
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The distribution of category goodness ratings clearly showed that listeners of either dialect responded well to graded acoustic characteristics of the vowel as a function of differences in prosodic prominence.
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Further, studies comparing perception of speech and music generally employ signals that differ in their acoustic characteristics, which makes the interpretation of the findings difficult.
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Moreover, acoustic characteristics of the call will change with the urgency of the potential predatory episode.
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Whereas acoustics tends to rely on lab measurements and individual acoustic characteristics of cars and so on, soundscape takes a top-down approach.
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Tinnitus annoyance is more strongly associated with psychological symptoms than acoustic characteristics.
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Acoustic enhancement systems help give a more even sound in the hall and prevent dead spots in the audience seating area by... augmenting a hall's intrinsic acoustic characteristics.
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Vocal-tract-size differences result in formant-frequency variation across speakers; therefore a listener has to adjust his/her perceptual system to the acoustic characteristics of a particular speaker.
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