What's the difference between inaudible and subvocal?
Inaudible
Definition:
(a.) Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent.
Example Sentences:
(1) An inaudible voice variable, known to be influenced by stress-arousal in adults, was recently discovered to differ significantly among four situationally defined types of infant vocalizations.
(2) "My writing is maybe so badly [inaudible] that you can't read it and I'm sorry.
(3) But the recordings were all but inaudible – and the judge, Mohamed Nagy, was forced to admit that he could not make out what was being said.
(4) First, when SOAEs were suppressed, the tinnitus was inaudible.
(5) Subsequently, the Independent police complaints commission said on Tuesday that Rowland, of all the officers involved in an affair that had turned "an inaudible altercation into a national scandal", had not wanted to pursue the matter further and had been content with the apology he received from Mitchell.
(6) Nearly 1,400 people have complained to the BBC about inaudible dialogue in drama Jamaica Inn, which lost 2 million viewers, a third of its audience, over its three-part run.
(7) Results revealed that ADHD children were delayed in private speech development in that they engaged in more externalized, self-fuiding and less inaudible, internalized speech than normal youngsters.
(8) In case 1, with inaudible prosthetic clicks, thrombosis of the cage and immobility of the ball were suggested by echocardiographic studies and confirmed at surgery.
(9) After they are pronounced married, Frank pulls Ready close, says something inaudible and his eyes well up.
(10) If supplied with a microphone, he would often speak more quietly to maintain the same level of general inaudibility.
(11) A woman at the back of the nave shouted something inaudible but clearly theological and angry.
(12) If this could be attained, the hours in a hospital on rounds or at lectures would be better spent and ultimately, the speaker, too, would derive more satisfaction from his work if he were rewarded with stimulating questions from an appreciative audience instead of the perfunctory applause of somnolent, noncomprehending colleagues, driven almost to distraction by unending cacolalia complicated by lightning speed and rank inaudibility.
(13) Amplitudes of inaudible "subjective" signals are inferred from tone-on-tone masking measurements.
(14) Her words were almost inaudible and I only pieced together the meaning once she had pulled away from me.
(15) This pulse-generated runoff (PGR) system generates blood flow in patent calf arteries by means of a pulsatile cuff even if the existing Doppler signal is inaudible.
(16) But the worst thing would be if somebody said I was inaudible.
(17) The cheering was inaudible in the rows of tarpaper shacks you see as you land at Mumbai airport and in myriad villages denied basic technology, such as light and safe water.
(18) The Tory leader's list of successes, inaudibly subtitled "don't let Labour ruin it" – the repatriation of Abu Qatada, a small i mprovement in unemployment , populist changes to benefits , a hint of a hint of a recovery – will send his backbenchers off for summer in better spirits than they have been in for a while.
(19) Those officers who may be responsible for turning a largely inaudible altercation lasting less than a minute into a national scandal plainly have a case to answer for gross misconduct.
(20) An employee at the public security bureau could be overheard telling a colleague: "This person is asking what happened in [inaudible] Square."
Subvocal
Definition:
(a. & n.) Same as Subtonic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The best zero-order predictor was age (.62), followed by subvocalization rate (.57) and intelligence (.39).
(2) 2 the digit span was correlated against measures of age, intelligence, subvocalization rate, perceptual speed, and memory search rate, for 40 subjects aged 7 to 17 yr.
(3) Analysis of the electromyographic records showed a large decrease in subvocalization in the feedback condition, and results of the memory task revealed an increase in errors for this group.
(4) The hypothesis tested was that stutterers subvocalize more slowly than nonstutterers and that they need more time for the overt production of the fluent parts of their speech.
(5) The authors suggest that auditory hallucinations may be projections of schizophrenic patients' verbal thoughts, subvocalized due to deficient cerebral cortical inhibition.
(6) Several investigators have suggested that schizophrenic patients may show an increase in subvocal speech (as measured by electromyographic [EMG] activity) during auditory hallucinations (AH), and that the subvocal activity might be antecedent to the hallucinatory experience.
(7) Based on experimental results, we propose that subvocal articulation might be impaired in anarthric patients in different ways, according to the site of lesion: in 'locked-in' patients only the articulatory rehearsal processes necessary to enhance memory performances is involved, while in cortical anarthric patients the lesion affects the articulatory recoding processes involved in transferring visually presented material into an articulatory form for better retention.
(8) Half the 16 right-handed subjects rehearsed the pair of words vocally and half subvocally.
(9) Subjects in both groups were trained to suppress subvocalization.
(10) Experiment 4 explores further the role of subvocalization, by showing that the likelihood of reinterpreting an imaged stimulus is directly proportional to the degree of enactment allowed.
(11) In immediate ordered recall, recency is the improved recall of the last item of a presentation, and the modality effect is the advantage for an acoustic presentation over a subvocalized visual presentation, primarily occurring at the last serial position.
(12) The older boys were different than the other sex by age groups in that their recall and subvocal speech scores were significantly correlated; they engaged in greater amounts of raw EMG activity on both high-labial and low-labial trials; and they recalled only a small per cent of the names of pictures they did not subvocalize.
(13) The results suggest that requiring subjects to simultaneously suppress subvocalization and remember syllables depresses performance slightly, but encoding of speech sounds in short-term memory occurs independently of subvocal activity during the memory task.
(14) Briefly exposed stimuli not only have to be scanned, but also rehearsed, subvocally, before they can be encoded.
(15) We argue that subvocalization or enactment provides an internal stimulus that is subject to reinterpretation.
(16) Only subjects in the feedback group were asked to suppress subvocalization during the experiment, while subjects in the no-feedback group were allowed to subvocalize during the memory task.
(17) In Experiment 1, articulatory suppression was used to prevent subjects from subvocal rehearsal when learning the stimuli, whereas in Experiment 2, verbal labels were presented with each stimulus during learning to encourage a reliance on the verbal code.
(18) Two experiments were performed to determine how accurately the immediate memory span may be predicted from the subject's subvocalization rate, as compared with other subject and stimulus variables.
(19) The technologic consequence is that covert oral behavior (subvocalization) during silent reading is beneficial to children and should not be tampered with by the teacher.
(20) A microphone placed close to the lips was used to detect subvocal speech.