acoustic cue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacousticandcue
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acoustic
adjective
uk/əˈkuː.stɪk/us/əˈkuː.stɪk/
relating to sound ...
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cue
noun[C]
uk/kjuː/us/kjuː/
a word or action in a play or film that is used as a signal by a performer to begin saying or ...
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(Definition ofacousticandcuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the production of speech, there is a natural temporal precedence for the articulatory gesture over the associatedacousticcue.
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Consequently, the sameacousticcuemay evoke a greater response at the relevant fibres when in one acoustic context than when in another.
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Determining the point at which to excise a target word produced in a sentence was guided by the acoustic signal to avoid including anacousticcuefrom the previous word.
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Rather than focusing so much on anthropomorphic avatars, recognisable visual environments, and spatially flawless acoustic cues, perhaps more investigation of compositional issues is warranted.
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It is this inference that leads to this study of perception of acoustic cues distinguishing literal from idiomatic expressions.
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Just because other acoustic cues, such as duration or diphthongization, are available does not mean that they can be used by nonnative speakers.
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Therefore, it would seem that other acoustic cues are necessary to signal the presence of an initial voiceless geminate.
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This was done to eliminate any coarticulation or other acoustic cues that might influence word recognition for the target words.
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This is hardly surprising, given the nature of secondary articulation as an essentially vocalic property with elongated (temporally extended) acoustic cues.
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A gesture's recoverability is compromised when its acoustic cues are weak or absent, for example due to overlap with other gestures.
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That is, the transient nature of the acoustic cues for consonants induces a categorical, rather than a continuous, mode of perception.
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However, in the presence of liquid clusters, it is unlikely that listeners would even require these additional acoustic cues to word boundaries.
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Discriminability and perceptual weighting of some acoustic cues to speech perception by 3-year-olds.
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Nevertheless, it is possible under one scenario that the children of this study had a perceptual problem or different weighting of acoustic cues that would have yielded these effects.
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The reason appears at least at first to be quite clear : a vowel, especially a stressed one, provides favourable acoustic cues for the perception and recoverability of glottalisation.
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Discriminability and perceptual weighting of some acoustic cues to speech perception by three year olds.
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Kingston argues that the glottal release follows the oral release because the ensuing high energy offers the best acoustic cues for the glottal gesture.
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