What's the difference between coda and syllable?

Coda


Definition:

  • (n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (Bolognesi, M., Coda, A., Frigerio, F., Gatti, C., Ascenzi, P., and Brunori, M. (1990) J. Mol.
  • (2) Beyond the director himself, the coda to the Clinton email inquiry has exposed the FBI as a politicized agency, a development with serious repercussions over the next several years.
  • (3) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.
  • (4) Even the rabbis, though, fail to squeeze much in the way of laughs out of the coda to Noah's story.
  • (5) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
  • (6) It may feel a little like we have a reached a coda, but that is not the case.
  • (7) The present study employed a new computerized system, CODA-3, which locates small prismatic markers and computes by triangulation their three-dimensional position at 100 Hz.
  • (8) Roars appeared sonographically like prolonged barks composed of a pulsated preface, a long legato climax and a brief, fractionated and at times pulsated coda; each part varied internally to the ear and in acoustic structure.
  • (9) It made a colourful and pleasing coda to the sound and fury of new hardware doing battle.
  • (10) Though his heart's in the right place, connubially and ecologically, Walter is no less flawed than the other characters, and his fanatical campaign, in the novel's coda, to have his neighbours keep their cats indoors so as to save the local bird-life, is comic as well as sad.
  • (11) Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, but it continues to shine in concert halls where Matthews's beautifully crafted movement is frequently performed as a coda to Holst's work.
  • (12) Coda: today, economic security is something those under 20 cannot conceive of, like life before the internet.
  • (13) In the context of his career, his final weekend at Fenway is something of a coda.
  • (14) Although it is obviously unusual, Bishop is not the first to be posthumously nominated for the Costa awards, joining excellent company including Ted Hughes, who won book of the year for Birthday Letters in 1998 and Simon Gray, shortlisted in 2009 for his post-Smoking Diaries memoir, Coda.
  • (15) But in the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations – launching in London today – a working group of current and ex-judges, advocates and professors, drawn from each region of the world, argue that any new international agreement will just be a coda to obligations already present, pressing and unavoidable in existing law.
  • (16) The treatment of Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company offers just as chilling a coda.
  • (17) A strange coda: suggestions of bad blood between the brothers ignore one extraordinary fact.
  • (18) The Inbetweeners Movie was originally planned as a coda to the third and last series on E4 in 2010.
  • (19) Soon to be published is Coda, which tells the story of his last months, and is, it is said, wonderful.
  • (20) The narratives were analyzed for the use of abstracts, orientations (background information), and codas.

Syllable


Definition:

  • (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.
  • (n.) In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.
  • (n.) A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
  • (v. t.) To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (2) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
  • (3) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
  • (4) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
  • (5) Older hearing controls (14-16 years) matched the deaf group in span and tended to recall most accurately written syllables which are not easily lipread.
  • (6) Free recall of nonsense syllables was significantly better when these were learned under active compound.
  • (7) Under some conditions, visual information can override auditory information to the extent that identification judgments of a visually influenced syllable can be as consistent as for an analogous audiovisually compatible syllable.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
  • (10) A reading battery composed of eight different subtests was given to each patient (reading of letters, reading of syllables, reading of pseudowords, reading of words, reading of sentences, understanding commands, reading and comprehension of texts, and logographic reading).
  • (11) "I'm Ms Dy-na-mi-TEE-ee," she sang on the chorus, putting an emphasis on the penultimate syllable.
  • (12) Using tonal stimuli based on the nonspeech stimuli of Mattingly et al., we found that subjects, with appropriate practice, could classify nonspeech chirp, short bleat, and bleat continua with boundaries equivalent to the syllable place continuum of Mattingly et al.
  • (13) 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.
  • (14) Discourse passages and consonant nonsense syllables, presented in quiet and in noise, were used as the test conditions.
  • (15) The interactive effects of these modifications were evaluated by obtaining indices of nonsense syllable recognition ability from normally hearing listeners for systematically varied combinations of the four signal parameters.
  • (16) This study was designed to investigate the effects of self-evaluative responses with feedback in a nonsense syllable recognition task (Experiment I) and a concept learning task (Experiment II).
  • (17) 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.
  • (18) Stutterers react emotionally to syllables they stutter because they experience difficulty in articulating those syllables.
  • (19) For the reverberant condition, the sentences were played through a room with a reverberation time of 1.2 s. The CVC syllables were removed from the sentences and presented in pairs to ten subjects with audiometrically normal hearing, who judged the similarity of the syllable pairs separately for the nonreverberant and reverberant conditions.
  • (20) Well-formed syllable production is established in the first 10 months of life by hearing infants but not by deaf infants, indicating that audition plays an important role in vocal development.