acoustic signal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacousticandsignal
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acoustic
adjective
uk/əˈkuː.stɪk/us/əˈkuː.stɪk/
relating to sound ...
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signal
noun[C]
uk/ˈsɪɡ.nəl/us/ˈsɪɡ.nəl/
an action, movement, or sound that gives information, a message, a warning, or ...
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(Definition ofacousticandsignalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Those variations in theacousticsignalthat do not contribute to differences in meaning are simply not perceived by the listener.
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The only difference is that anacousticsignal(a short beep) was presented 800 ms after the onset of the picture presentation.
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Theacousticsignalcorresponding to a spoken nonword is subject to a variety of levels of analysis by the human perceptual system.
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These unavoidable factors can lead to the actualacousticsignalconsisting of more than just pure and natural human speech (pp. 36-7).
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He argues that bottom-up skills must also be developed so that all the components of theacousticsignalbecome meaningful units for the listener.
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The confusion is thus unidirectional because of the physical properties of theacousticsignal.
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It must be noted that for these items the temporal measures were based on theacousticsignal.
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Anticipating my conclusion, when a periodic glottal wave is either obscured or not present, theacousticsignalcannot encode a salient pitch value.
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However, we reject the view that a borrowed word constitutes a non-linguisticacousticsignal.
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This is evidence of the effect that the mouth aperture has on anacousticsignal.
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In other words, when children obey such a rule, they can only gather information from theacousticsignal.
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Feedback, in contrast, would allow the reverse - transformation of the pattern derived from theacousticsignalto match the lexical form.
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One illustration of the non-acoustic nature of the syllable is the fact that speakers of different languages may interpret the sameacousticsignalas containing different numbers of syllables.
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Application of rules to the hypothesized sequence containing "those" will lead to a pattern of landmarks and features that matches the pattern derived from theacousticsignal.
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Thus, infants are not necessarily attending to individual phonemes, but may be responding to more general features of theacousticsignal, such as manner of articulation.
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Gathercole suggests that the selective deficit in nonword repetition may be due to fast rates of transmission of theacousticsignal, but does not elaborate on this possibility.
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By filtering out this irrelevant "noise" in theacousticsignal, the memory load put on the auditory system is greatly reduced and processing can proceed more quickly.
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Determining the point at which to excise a target word produced in a sentence was guided by theacousticsignalto avoid including an acoustic cue from the previous word.
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One possibility is that the processing of nonwords is a particularly demanding activity, due to the fast rates of transmission of information of theacousticsignal.
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Theacousticsignalin the vicinity of these landmarks is processed by a set of modules, each of which identifies a phonetic feature that was implemented by the speaker.
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