What's the difference between homophonic and melodic?

Homophonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Homophonous

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experiment 1 visually presented uncommon spellings of homophones to subjects before and during a suggestion for hypnotic blindness, and subsequently tested subjects' spelling of the homophones.
  • (2) A further study required subjects to decide whether visually presented nonwords were homophonous with real words.
  • (3) Procedural memory, as measured by stem completion, homophone spelling and transformed text reading, did not differ between Alzheimer patients and controls.
  • (4) Van Orden (1987) reported that false positive errors in a categorization task are elevated for homophonic foils (e.g., HARE for A PART OF THE HUMAN BODY).
  • (5) Experiment II was designed for dissociation between phonemic and semantic information of the memory trace, using homophones as study and test items.
  • (6) The Post alleged his surname was changed to "Jia": a homophone for "fake" in Chinese, but also the surname of another senior leader, Jia Qinglin, who was reportedly furious at rumours that his family might be involved and ordered an investigation.
  • (7) The implicit memory ability of a patient (S.S.) with severe amnesia due to encephalitis was assessed using five independent paradigms: Perceptual priming with real words and pseudowords; Word-stem completion with and without contextual cues; Word-stem completion following presentation of high- vs. low-frequency words; Biasing of the spelling of ambiguous (homophonic) words; and Conceptual priming.
  • (8) Subjects' attributions of their performance did not involve awareness of the homophones.
  • (9) When the primes were homophonic homographs, semantic relationship facilitated lexical decision of targets at all SOAs regardless of the dominance of the meaning to which the targets were related.
  • (10) Two experiments provided evidence of environmental context-dependent memory using a homophone spelling test (e.g., Jacoby & Witherspoon, 1982), an implicit, indirect measure of memory (Richardson-Klavehn & Bjork, 1988).
  • (11) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 29 May 2009 Near homophone corner: referring to the leader comment below, a reader justly asks, "Calling Miliband and Johnson Messers may well have been an opinion but could you have meant Messrs?".
  • (12) Additionally, in each of two experiments, matched word and nonword homophones produced virtually identical error rates.
  • (13) These data can be accounted for by assuming multiple lexical entries for heterophonic homographs, single lexical entries for homophonic homographs, and phonological mediation of accessing meanings.
  • (14) "The Japanese government is eager to break through the postwar system," wrote the ruling Communist party's flagship People's Daily newspaper in an editorial written under the name Zhong Sheng, a homophone for Voice of China .
  • (15) A homophone of a target word, when presented as a preview in the parafovea, facilitated processing of the target word seen on the next fixation more than a preview of a word matched with the homophone in visual similarity to the target word.
  • (16) Results of the present study, involving the recognition and spelling of semantically biased homophones, suggest a negative answer to this question and imply that intraoperative events cannot be remembered postoperatively, either with or without awareness.
  • (17) If stimulus nonword homophones are viewed as extremely unfamiliar words, compared with the relatively familiar stimulus word homophones, then our failure to observe an effect of stimulus familiarity strengthens the case that phonological coding plays a role in the identification of all printed words.
  • (18) She learned to use homophones to evade the censors.
  • (19) The present study investigates the influence of different contexts on their interpretations of homophones.
  • (20) Although his oral reading of words is prompt and generally accurate, analysis of his lexical decision performance and the way that he defines homophones indicate that he does not have fully specified lexical entries available for reading either.

Melodic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Young children also are sensitive to melodic contour over transformations that preserve it (Study 5), yet they distinguish spontaneously between melodies with the same contour and different intervals (Study 4).
  • (2) The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate adult Ineraid and Nucleus cochlear implant (CI) users' perceptual accuracy for melodic and rhythmic patterns, and quality ratings for different musical instruments.
  • (3) "Huff was maybe sweeter and more melodic," Gamble agrees, warming to my notion that he was maybe the Lennon to Huff's McCartney.
  • (4) Melodic themes of target melodies were defined by correlating contour-related pitch accents with temporal accents (accent coupling) during an initial familiarization phase.
  • (5) The call to prayer blares out five times a day from a multitude of speakers across the city, some melodic others hellish.
  • (6) Experimental Series 2 showed that temporal and melodic parameters such as speed, rhythm, pitch range, and melodic structure also have clear and consistent effects on perceived urgency.
  • (7) But really, was this state of mind so alien from that of the composers who, at the turn of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th, sought to overturn the enlightenment conception of western classical music, with its formal properties of rhythmic, harmonic and melodic structure?
  • (8) Their eponymous debut, a melodic blend of guitar pop and dance beats released in 1989, is still regarded by many as one of the great first albums.
  • (9) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).
  • (10) Expectations based on both familiarity and predictability were found to reduce restoration at the melodic level.
  • (11) By then, she was experimenting with a singing voice that was softer and more melodic than the harsh Jamaican patois she spat on the garage tracks.
  • (12) His flow is sick and the narratives he can weave over tough and gritty but surprisingly melodic beats are often nothing short of breathtaking.
  • (13) As this procedure proved not useful in this case, an adaptation of Melodic Intonation Therapy (signing plus an intoned rather than spoken verbal stimulus) was tried.
  • (14) The melodic pattern repeats itself several times throughout, then you have a mid eight, and for me the most thrilling part is the reprise, those rising notes, and then it hits the top.
  • (15) Global timing patterns reflected the hierarchical grouping structure of the composition, with pronounced ritardandi at the ends of major sections and frequent expressive lengthening of accented tones within melodic gestures.
  • (16) Many adult listeners are also able to consistently adjust two successive pure tones "one octave apart," which shows that they possess melodic octave templates.
  • (17) With Russians, what you see is a melodic thread in their dancing, an upper-body expressiveness that brings out another side of the work.
  • (18) Church's biggest hit – the melodic rock anthem Springsteen – has more in common with its titular hero than Nashville.
  • (19) Categorical perception was investigated in a series of experiments on the perception of melodic musical intervals (sequential frequency ratios).
  • (20) The relationship between melodic and text singing was also discussed.

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