(v. i.) To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.
(v. i.) To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.
(v. t.) To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.
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.
Sonorous
Definition:
(a.) Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
(a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.
(a.) Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.
(a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.
(a.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(2) The value of sonor biparietal cephalometry and serum oxytocinase that we have obtained with weekly simultaneous determinations in 14 females with normal pregnancy and in 5 with pathological pregnancy, from 24th to 39th week, show a statical positive relation.
(3) And Matthew McConaughey will do a sonorous voice over about the evolution of human endeavour on the trailer.
(4) And the winner of the £25,000 prize – Glaswegian Susan Philipsz , whose piece consisted of a recording of her soft and sonorous voice singing a traditional Scottish lament over the River Clyde – remembered it the morning after just as an artist who works in sound ought: "It was a surreal experience.
(5) But the voice is a deep sonorous thing that crackles like dry leather, and he can still draw blood with one deadpan line.
(6) Sonorant and voicing features were transmitted well for the A condition, but features related to high-frequency and place cues were not.
(7) The author has conducted 95 subtotal reconstructive laryngectomies in the period of 1976 to 1984, with the following effects: decannulation, with the mean time of 6 weeks in 82%; deglutition without difficulties, after the third postoperative month in 90% of operated patients; the restoration of phonetics with sonorous-understandable speech in 11%.
(8) It all began at two minutes to six on May Day last year, when the sonorous tones of Sir David Attenborough combined with the equally unmistakable call of the cuckoo, heralding the start of Tweet of the Day .
(9) My eldest son dropped his dummy like a stone when warned by our Italian dentist, in a sonorous baritone: "You don't give up your dummy, you look like this …" (pantomiming horrible buck teeth).
(10) It has also been argued that the sonority (or vowel-likeness) of the consonant closest to the peak, which is a function of its phonetic class, may have an effect on the strength of boundaries determined by the hierarchical division of the syllable (e.g., Treiman, 1984).
(11) Prefiguring attitudes now associated with John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman, Robinson succeeded in breaking through what he called the "sonorous drivel" of politicians, of whom he once said: "It's impossible to make the bastards reply to a straight question."
(12) Salient features in the auditory mode for the CI group were duration, sonorancy, and some manner attributes, while the HA subjects used these features as well as sibilancy and voicing.
(13) Velopharyngeal sonorous snoring is best treated with uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP).
(14) In May, it hosts Nuits Sonores , a five-day (and night) festival of electronic music and art, which sees hundreds of locations across the city transformed into creative stages (13-17 May).
(15) In a slow but sonorous voice, the biblical cadences rolled out, and the crowd would sway with them, and punctuate them with the answering calls that are the special feature of Negro churches.
(16) A high court judge has sonorously intoned that Putin is not very nice.
(17) What's excruciating is seeing your father lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying in a pool of blood.” Charles Ryan, director of Arizona’s department of corrections, said in a statement: “Once the inmate was sedated, other than sonorous respiration, or snoring, he did not grimace or make any further movement.
(18) These values confirm the fact that, although the new voice achieved through reconstructive laryngectomy surgery is less sonorous, it allows for perfectly understandable, socially acceptable speech.
(19) Other times it is groups of young men who improvise platforms upon the irregular surfaces of the rooftop and talk and laugh with sonorous cries, feeling perhaps, at this height, somewhat liberated from the burdensome human environment, and whose demeanour is tinged with familiarity by their moving around in shirtsleeves – as on a rooftop no one is ashamed of exhibiting themselves dressed like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest View from the rooftop of Brasil 42 today.
(20) Not according to some Obama administration voices and rather too many sonorous broadcasters and upmarket commentators.