What's the difference between monophthong and monophthongal?

Monophthong


Definition:

  • (n.) A single uncompounded vowel sound.
  • (n.) A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Errors for monophthongs in reverberation but not in noise seemed to be related to an overestimation of vowel duration, and there was a tendency to weight the formant frequencies differently in the reverberation and quiet conditions.
  • (2) The effects of noise and reverberation on the identification of monophthongs and diphthongs were evaluated for ten subjects with moderate sensorineural hearing losses.
  • (3) Errors for monophthongs in noise seemed to be related to spectral proximity of formant frequencies for confused pairs.
  • (4) It is illustrated that the monophthongal vowel sounds of American English can be represented as clustered in perceptual target zones within a three-dimensional auditory-perceptual space (APS), and it is shown that preliminary versions of these target zones segregate a corpus of vowels of American English with 93% accuracy.
  • (5) In this experiment, the effects of changes in stress and in rate of speech (tempo) on the acoustic characteristics of American English monophthongal, nonretroflex vowels were examined.
  • (6) For the diphthongs in both noise and reverberation, there was a tendency to judge a diphthong as the beginning monophthong.

Monophthongal


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Errors for monophthongs in reverberation but not in noise seemed to be related to an overestimation of vowel duration, and there was a tendency to weight the formant frequencies differently in the reverberation and quiet conditions.
  • (2) The effects of noise and reverberation on the identification of monophthongs and diphthongs were evaluated for ten subjects with moderate sensorineural hearing losses.
  • (3) Errors for monophthongs in noise seemed to be related to spectral proximity of formant frequencies for confused pairs.
  • (4) It is illustrated that the monophthongal vowel sounds of American English can be represented as clustered in perceptual target zones within a three-dimensional auditory-perceptual space (APS), and it is shown that preliminary versions of these target zones segregate a corpus of vowels of American English with 93% accuracy.
  • (5) In this experiment, the effects of changes in stress and in rate of speech (tempo) on the acoustic characteristics of American English monophthongal, nonretroflex vowels were examined.
  • (6) For the diphthongs in both noise and reverberation, there was a tendency to judge a diphthong as the beginning monophthong.

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