(n.) The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
(n.) A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
(n.) A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
(n.) The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
(n.) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
(n.) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.
(n.) Same as Diffraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
(2) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(3) We conclude from these six studies that: (a) BN presents a counter-example to the claim that non-fluent patients have particular difficulty with those aspects of morphology which have a syntactic function; (b) BN processes both derived and inflected words by mapping the sensory input onto the entire full-form of a complex word, but the semantic and syntactic content of the stem alone is accessed and integrated into the context.
(4) The Hill plots of all resonances of the imidazole rings, including the 15N resonances, show a small inflection in the pH range 5.8-6.4.
(5) Two of the three inflection points occurring in the voltammograms are invariant with changes in scan rate, pH, CO2, O2, and glucose.
(6) With prose that takes the English language and infuses it with inflections and a history that is uniquely Igbo, discernibly Nigerian and unmistakably African, Achebe's is a realism that ensures the enduring relevance of his fiction.
(7) We measured the pressure-volume curves (PV curves) of the lung simultaneously at three levels in the esophagus below the tracheal bifurcation using the three-short-balloon-catheter system in 11 normal seated men and compared the inflection points (IP's) of three PV curves with the closing volume (CV) on the single-breath nitrogen washout curve.
(8) Stimulation of secretion of preloaded 125I-mannose-N-acetyl-poly-D-lysine by mannose-BSA was more pronounced at lower temperatures with a sharp inflection point at 10 degrees C. These findings suggest that endosomes containing newly internalized mannose-BSA interact with the exocytosis pathway and enhance secretion of 125I-mannose-N-acetyl-poly-D-lysine from lysosomes.
(9) The inflection in plasma epinephrine shifted in an identical manner and occurred simultaneously with that of TLa (r = 0.97) regardless of the testing protocol or training status.
(10) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
(11) The contours of the major components of the far-field CMAPs were frequently interrupted by a series of small amplitude negative and positive peaks or inflections.
(12) Surface tension graphs were similar to those of conventional surfactants, showing apparent critical micelle concentrations (cmc) at distinct inflection points.
(13) The absence of an inflection point show that surface EMG does not provide an indication of Tlac.
(14) The clear inflection point at 3 x 10(-6) M (25 degrees C) observed in the surface tension-concentration curve may not represent the CMC for the formation of multimolecular aggregates.
(15) Thermotolerance was identified from the appearance of an inflection in the survival curve or from the loss of heat resistance in the presence of chloramphenicol (CAM) or rifampicin.
(16) The use of the inflection point is discussed thoroughly, concluding that although it does not allow exclusion of the existence of genotypically different subgroups, the limitations of the data do not permit its use to determine the number of heterozygotes and thus the existence of polymorphism.
(17) On the other hand, the number of groups corresponding to the second inflection is slightly increased.
(18) Parameter estimates are obtained from estimates of the size and time at the point of inflection, the size and time at any other arbitrarily selected point, and the maximum size.
(19) The conversational features within the transcript included the interruptions, pauses, overlaps, inflections, and turn shapes as structured by the participants.
(20) Type II is a spike of short duration (mean 2.0 msec) with only an inflection on the falling phase.
Intonation
Definition:
(n.) A thundering; thunder.
(n.) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
(n.) Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false.
(n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) This method seems the best way to evaluate the respective interactions of intonation with syntax and pragmatics.
(2) This study explores the power of intonation to convey meaningful information about the communicative intent of the speaker in speech addressed to preverbal infants and in speech addressed to adults.
(3) This paper reports the results of an inquiry into the question of category versus continuum in intonation.
(4) Jargon incorporated familiar intonational contours and prosodic features to convey emotional states and communicative functions.
(5) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
(6) They also started wearing pinstripe suits and dark glasses, and intoning lines from the film.
(7) They also spend excessive time in making unusual sounds consisting of a high-pitched shrill cry with little intonation in infancy and a harsh, strained, and glottal stridency in later life.
(8) Presentation of the fundamental frequency only generally led to improved perception of features associated with it (voicing and intonation).
(9) This study investigated the possibility that the reported success of agrammatic aphasic patients in performing auditory grammaticality judgments results from their use of intonational cues to sentence well-formedness.
(10) These productions varied with location of contrastive stress, type of sentence intonation, and use of TSV.
(11) The aphasic patients' performance was slightly worse for both signal-processed conditions, but there was little apparent effect of removing sentence intonation on their ability to judge sentence grammaticality.
(12) Ss were presented with lists of 16 words, each word spoken in one of four intonations.
(13) The hearing-impaired subjects produced four different types of deviant intonation contours.
(14) Two experiments were conducted to explore the effectiveness of a single vibrotactile stimulator to convey intonation (question versus statement) and contrastive stress (on one of the first three words of four 4- or 5-word sentences).
(15) That's as it should be, since the state (not the "taxpayer" as the media constantly intones) currently owns 81% and 39% of RBS and Lloyds TSB respectively.
(16) The slope of the intonational grid lines depends at least on sentence type (statement or question), sentence length, and tone pattern.
(17) In experiment 2 the processing was used to separate voiced sentences spoken with time-varying intonation.
(18) This suggests that other variables, not measured in this study, play an important role in the perception of utterance final intonation contours in the speech of the deaf.
(19) But Tuesday's publication of the serious case review into Daniel's death was the cue for a series of senior public sector managers to troop through the nation's television studios and intone piously that "lessons will be learned".
(20) Although there was an overall decrement in intelligibility with increasing compression, sentences heard in normal intonation were significantly better able to withstand the debilitating effects of compression than those with anomalous intonation.