(n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.
(n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.
Example Sentences:
(1) A coronial inquiry will be undertaken into the circumstances surrounding the death of Haider.
(2) He lived by the premise that he was always right,” Phillips told the coronial inquest into the siege which took place over two days in December 2014.
(3) A coronial inquest into the death in custody of a 22-year-old Yamitji woman in a South Hedland police cell will begin in two months time, the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, told her family this week.
(4) Police can now act on the spot to protect victims whenever and wherever family violence occurs.” A coronial inquest is under way into the murder of Luke Batty by his father in February on a cricket field in Tyabb, Victoria.
(5) The coronial inquest into Dhu’s death, which resumes next month, heard that police at the Port Hedland lock-up did not believe she was seriously ill and told the triage nurse she was “faking it” when she may have already slipped into cardiac arrest.
(6) Ms Dhu, an Aboriginal woman who died in police custody in Western Australia last year, was “treated like a dog” by police and hospital staff, a coronial inquest has heard.
(7) A coronial inquest is supposed to be non-adversarial.
(8) The coronial inquest, which was established because of the deaths of two hostages , held a short hearing in January and is to reopen on Monday to examine every aspect of the siege and the way it was handled by authorities.
(9) The coronial inquests had provided “valuable information”.
(10) For me, the coronial inquest and the horrifying victim blaming that it brought to the fore really enabled me to see victim blaming for what it was: a misguided and damaging narrative that ultimately lets perpetrators off the hook,” Batty will tell reporters.
(11) On Wednesday, the coronial inquest into Anderson’s death will begin, and is expected to conclude the same day.
(12) The work was put to tender in 2009 as part of a statewide program based on coronial recommendations after a death in custody at Roebourne prison in 2007, and was supposed to be completed in 2012.
(13) But Glenda Lindsay, the nurse who performed the triage assessment on 2 August, told the coronial inquest in Perth on Wednesday that Ms Dhu was calm, compliant and alert when she saw her, minutes before she was seen by a second nurse and a doctor.
(14) Coronial autopsy data were obtained from the Brisbane Laboratory of Pathology and Microbiology.
(15) All deaths in custody are subject to a coronial inquest, although most on this list have not yet been assigned an inquest date.
(16) The attorney-general, John Elferink said he believed the man had pre-existing medical conditions but the government would wait for the coronial inquest findings.
(17) Hours later Langdon died of heart failure , alone in the concrete cell, and a coronial inquiry last week ruled he should have been a free man.
(18) The Auckland coronial district experience of 65 childhood pedestrian deaths over a seven year period is presented.
(19) The coronial inquest related to the deaths of Matthew Fuller, 25, Rueben Barnes, 16, and Mitchell Sweeney, 22, who were all killed between October 2009 and February 2010 while fitting insulation in Queensland homes as part of a federal government scheme under the Rudd government.
(20) Any follow up questions are referred to the coronial office within WA police, which does not comment.
Diphthong
Definition:
(n.) A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong.
(n.) A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.
(v. t.) To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clustering in the present song, however, may also be due to a tendency for a mid vowel to be realized as a higher-beginning diphthong, which is characteristic of the North-Estonian coastal dialect area where the singers come from.
(2) Those confusions occurring in visual diphthong recognition tended to shift toward the stressed vowel element of the diphthong or to a vowel produced in a manner similar to the stressed element.
(3) This paper describes a successful experiment of creating several different diphthongs by judicious choice of the phase angles of a flat-spectrum waveform.
(4) Pronunciation of the diphthong La... La... La... causes upward and forward projection of the prosthesis.
(5) The effects of reverberation on the perception of vowels and diphthongs were evaluated using 10 subjects with moderate sensorineural hearing losses.
(6) The effects of noise and reverberation on the identification of monophthongs and diphthongs were evaluated for ten subjects with moderate sensorineural hearing losses.
(7) Electromyography records contraction of the mylo-hyoid during pronunciation of these diphthongs.
(8) In addition, a feature related to overall area of maximum lip opening and two features unique to diphthong perception were tentatively identified.
(9) This study investigated vowel and diphthong lipreading performance from 0 degree and 90 degree angles of observation.
(10) It appears that modifications in relative timing may be due to adjustments in the jaw cycle as a result of the compound nature of jaw movement for diphthongs as compared to vowels, with further modifications due to the effect of stress on these compound movements.
(11) Four vowels, [i], [a], [e], [u], and one diphthong [ou], produced by two male and two female tracheoesophageal speakers were analyzed by the LPC autocorrelation method.
(12) Six- to seven-month-old infants were tested on their ability to discriminate among three speech sounds which differed on the basis of formant-transition duration, a major cue to distinctions among stop, semivowel and diphthong classes.
(13) Additionally, issues related to talker normalization, coarticulation effects, segmentation, pitch, transposition, and diphthongization are discussed.
(14) For the diphthongs in both noise and reverberation, there was a tendency to judge a diphthong as the beginning monophthong.
(15) These models deal primarily with the problem of "target undershoot" associated with the coarticulation of vowels with consonants in natural speech and with the issue of "vowel-inherent spectral change" or diphthongization of English vowels.
(16) Although vowel confusions occurred in both test conditions, the number of vowels and diphthongs affected and the total number of errors made were significantly greater under the reverberant condition.
(17) Finally, the role of vowel-inherent dynamic properties, including duration and diphthongization, is briefly reviewed.
(18) The diphthong stimuli were significantly easier to identify than the vowel stimuli at both angles of observation.