(n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
(n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.
(v. t.) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
Example Sentences:
(1) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(2) In Experiment 3, four strategies, alphabetic, size, serial order, and free recall, gave similar levels of recall after 6 min, though the growth rate of the cumulative output functions differed among the strategies.
(3) The controls for phonologically ambiguous words were the same words in their alternative, nonambiguous alphabetic transcription.
(4) MDD results were improved by using longer mutliplets and, if the sequences were coding, by using the larger amino acid and codon alphabets rather than the nucleotide alphabet.
(5) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
(6) Hanging on the walls are faded posters, a world map and the alphabet in Bengali and English.
(7) We present a polynomial algorithm (O(n X L4), where n is the number of sequences) for generating strings related to the LCS and constructed with the sequence alphabet and an indetermination symbol.
(8) A dramatic improvement in the S's ability to reproduce the alphabet was observed.
(9) Responses from all four mechanoreceptor classes (FA I, FA II, SA I and SA II) have been reconstructed to form two-dimensional Spatial Event Plots (raster plots) of the Braille alphabet.
(10) The chemical identity of the particular choice in our genetic alphabet can also be rationalized.
(11) "Satire is not a very familiar alphabet in Africa ," he said.
(12) Our Scrabble board had Velcro on the back, as did each alphabet piece.
(13) 10 Change your name Local parties, believe it or not, obsess over the alphabetical placement of candidates.
(14) However, the picture is rather complex in that we find significant correlations for some context-free word discrimination and sign-alphabet testing conditions.
(15) The lists were made up from the upper case letters of the alphabet, and during the recognition test each S was required to indicate how many times each of the irrelevant letters had appeared on the final list searched.
(16) Ministers have taken too long to consolidate the “alphabet soup” of agencies tasked with safeguarding the UK from cyber-attacks and there appears to be no coordination across the public sector, the public accounts committee (PAC) said.
(17) Biggs communicated using a pointer and alphabet, he said.
(18) They practiced spelling out the alphabet on a coloring book in a room next door.
(19) Failure rates of men, but not women students in genetics showed a significant positive correlation with alphabetical listing and ranged from 14% in the A-C region to 33% in the region T-Z.
(20) No attenuation of the alpha activity in the both hemispheres was seen during either the alphabet or kana syllabary imagery.
Vowel
Definition:
(n.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 146-149.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
(2) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(3) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(4) Test items in each of the 4 groups therefore contained different amounts of information regarding the nature of the following vowel, due to coarticulatory influences of the vowel on the preceding consonants.
(5) Coarticulatory effects of the vowel on the aperiodic portion were found to (1) occur early in the aperiodic portion, (2) vary with consonant and vowel, and (3) vary with vowel feature.
(6) As for vowel formant, missing anterior teeth and missing posterior teeth presented more such differences for formant i and formants i and e, respectively.
(7) Vowel identification was best when at least two kinds of cues were available.
(8) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
(9) The perception of voicing in final velar stop consonants was investigated by systematically varying vowel duration, change in offset frequency of the final first formant (F1) transition, and rate of frequency change in the final F1 transition for several vowel contexts.
(10) These results suggest that Japanese monkeys process formant and pure-tone frequency increments differentially and that the same mechanisms mediate formant frequency discrimination in single-formant and vowel-like complexes.
(11) The major findings were as follows: (1) no significant difference was found in consonant identification scores between aperiodic, aperiodic + vocalic transition, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; (2) consonant identifications from vocalic transition + vowel segments in VC syllables were significantly greater than those from vocalic transition + vowel segments in CV syllables; (3) no significant difference was found in vowel identification scores between aperiodic + vocalic transition, vocalic transition + vowel, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; and (4) vowel identifications from aperiodic segments were significantly greater in CV syllables than in VC syllables.
(12) Comparisons between normalized spectral energy within a selected high frequency range revealed that energy within this frequency range for vowels produced by TE speakers was significantly higher than that produced by normal speakers.
(13) The amount of variability found in the labeling of speech contrasts may be dependent on cue salience, which will be determined by the speech pattern complexity of the stimuli and by the vowel environment.
(14) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.
(15) The shorter latency N2 was found for the separating features of vowels or intensities but not for consonants.
(16) After learning to categorize syllables consisting of [d], [b], or [g] followed by four different vowels, quail correctly categorized syllables in which the same consonants preceded eight novel vowels.
(17) The ability of listeners to identify 10 vowels under two conditions was investigated.
(18) In this article, acoustic analyses are reported which show that the spectral properties of stuttered vowels are similar to the following fluent vowel, so it would appear that the stutterers are articulating the vowel appropriately.
(19) The perceived goodness of i parallel vowels declined systematically as stimuli were further removed from the prototypic i parallel vowel.
(20) All subjects received 60 monaural and dichotic consonant-vowel (CV) nonsense syllables presented at equal loudness levels using the most comfortable level (MCL) as the loudness criteria.