(a.) Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Performance-intensity functions for monosyllabic words were obtained as a function of signal-to-noise ratio for broadband and low-pass filtered noise.
(2) Significant monosyllabic-word-list intelligibility improvements are shown in hearing-impaired and in normal-hearing subjects for virtually any environmental noise, including white noise, babble (interfering background conversations), cafeteria noise, high-frequency noise, and low-frequency noise at signal-to-noise ratios to below -20 dB.
(3) 2) Lists of monosyllabic words for the measurement of discrimination score (DS) for adults, children and small children.
(4) The AI transfer function for probability-high items rises steeply, much as for sentence materials, while the function for probability-low items rises more slowly, as for monosyllabic words.
(5) Most of the authors and experts advocate the opinion, that the monosyllabic word test (with test words in German) is not valid for foreigners.
(6) Consonant-nucleus-consonant monosyllabic words were filltered such that each spectral component had equal energy (i.e., "whitened") and peak clipped in one of four ways: minimal, 20, 30, and 40 dB of clipping.
(7) Monosyllabic triplet word intelligibility scores were obtained from normal-hearing and hearing-impaired, loudness-recruiting subjects under two experimental conditions: (1) high-pass (1200 Hz)-filtered, linear amplification, and (2) high-pass (1200 Hz)-filtered, compression amplification using input-to-output ratios of 5:1 and 20:1.
(8) The highest correlation obtained (0.67) was with monosyllabic speech discrimination in noise.
(9) Third-grade average and below-average readers were tested on a word repetition task with monosyllabic, multisyllabic, and pseudoword stimuli.
(10) Foreigners unable to speak or understand German can be examined with the monosyllabic discrimination test by Hahlbrock.
(11) Twenty adult male talkers recorded a monosyllabic word, and 13 acoustic measurements were made from spectrograms of each talker's production.
(12) Phoneme scores in monosyllabic words ranged from 30% to 72%; word scores in sentences ranged from 26% to 74%.
(13) Sixty monosyllabic, disyllabic, and trisyllabic words were recorded and presented at different times through earphones and vibrators to 20 normal-hearing adults and to 20 profoundly hearing-impaired children to evaluate their perception of number of syllables.
(14) High quality tape-recordings of three tonal patterns by four oesophageal and eight tracheo-oesophageal speakers in monosyllabic words were judged by a group of six speech and language therapy listeners.
(15) Word length, however, exerted an influence in the interview situation where the children tended to be disfluent on monosyllabic words.
(16) However, the intelligibility curves of monosyllabic words was poorer when esophageal speech was employed.
(17) In this study, 35 normal preschool children, ages 2:1-5:11 (years:months), were exposed to a monosyllabic nonsense word and its novel object referent.
(18) A complex pattern of vowel preferences and errors was only partially related to typical prespeech babbling preferences, but was strongly related to word structure variables (monosyllabic vs. disyllabic) including stress patterns of disyllabic words, as reflected in patterns of relative frequencies of vowels in stressed and unstressed syllables.
(19) Using the adaptive methodology known as the Doublet technique, speech-discrimination testing using monosyllabic word lists from the Northwestern University Auditory Test No.
(20) Each subject was administered eight tasks: four word repetition tasks (monosyllabic, monosyllabic presented in noise, three-item, and multisyllabic), rapid naming, syllable segmentation, paper folding, and form completion.
Polysyllabic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Polysyllabical
Example Sentences:
(1) This study explored the effect of naturally occurring interactions of syllable stress and serial positions, found in polysyllabic words, on the variability of phonological performance of speech-delayed children.
(2) The goal of this research was to ascertain the effects of suprasegmental parameters (fundamental frequency, amplitude, and duration) on discrimination of polysyllabic sequences by 1- to 4-month-old infants.
(3) The longitudinal data suggest that early processes applied to polysyllabic words may be predictive of later pronunciation skill for the production of continuous speech.
(4) Slow negative potentials, which are at a maximum over Broca's area in the left hemisphere, were recorded when normnal subjects spontaneously produced polysyllabic words.
(5) Word identification becomes an increasingly important skill for these students, especially when confronted with unfamiliar, polysyllabic words.
(6) Two boys who exhibited different early phonological processes for the maintenance of syllables in polysyllabic words were studied at two subsequent times during the phonology development period.
(7) The pattern of results obtained in the six experiments suggests that the exaggerated suprasegmentals of infant-directed speech may function as a perceptual catalyst, facilitating discrimination by focusing the infant's attention on a distinctive syllable within polysyllabic sequences.
(8) These potentials, evoked by "silent" repetition of polysyllabic words, were averaged and recorded from the scalp overlying the inferior frontal regions on both sides in 20 normal healthy subjects of ages ranging from 13-58 years.
(9) Twenty adult stutterers and twenty matched controls produced utterances of three lengths--one syllable words, polysyllabic words, and sentences--in two conditions of time pressure (high and low) and two conditions of preparation (delayed and immediate responding) in a reaction-time paradigm.
(10) Recommended works Childe Harold contains a buoyant mixture of wit, pathos, travelogue and appalling polysyllabic rhymes.
(11) The agraphia of this patient showed the following features: (1) His writing difficulty was greater for Kana than for Kanji (ideogram) when a word was polysyllabic.
(12) It’s one of the easiest subjects for a kid – or it was when I was a kid – for you to expose your parents, because you had just read the new cigarette card and there was a name there, a polysyllabic name, that your parents had never heard of.” And there he still was, I realised, the boy with his cigarette cards, his excitement about creatures that lived many millions of years ago undimmed by the passage of mere decades.
(13) Such responses could be specifically related to certain combinations of consonants suggesting a function in categorization, they could depend on word length, could differentiate between polysyllabic and compound words of the same length or could be unspecifically related to language as such.
(14) Results showed a significant coincidence of stutter events and syllabic stress peaks, particularly in polysyllabic words.
(15) The acoustic correlates, which are based on relative measures, were tested on a corpus of 233 polysyllabic words, each of which was spoken once by two males and two females.
(16) We found that his performance on visual lexical processing tasks was very satisfactory, there was no effect of priming from a correctly read irregular word and his reading of polysyllabic words was remarkably good.
(17) Comparison of the natural and synthetic glottal waves indicates that (1) the rise of frequency in interrogative words is due principally to increasing vocal-fold tension, while (2) the fall of frequency in declarative words is due principally to decreasing subglottal air pressure; (3) in the polysyllabic words, the change of frequency within syllables resembles that of the declarative monosyllables and appears due primarily to changes of subglottal air pressure; and (4) the heightened f0 of the stressed syllable is due to an increase in the vocal-fold tension, typically accompanied by increased subglottal air pressure.
(18) Later, the subject was required to say a polysyllabic word, and finally, five or six words per token.
(19) Reading tasks were constructed of 24 monosyllabic words with initial consonant clusters and 10 polysyllabic words.
(20) The increase in duration was particularly marked for vowels and for sounds in polysyllabic words.