(a.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.
(a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.
(n.) A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, Ã2 is a surd.
(n.) A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.
Example Sentences:
Voiceless
Definition:
(a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
(a.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
Example Sentences:
(1) Undocumented children are the most voiceless of all.
(2) 6; (2) California Consonant Test, and (3) eight voiceless English consonants.
(3) Productions of target voiced and voiceless alveolar and velar stops were transcribed and acoustically analyzed before and after treatment that was administered on a predetermined contrast.
(4) As expected, glottal vibration extended over a longer time in the obstruent interval for voiced fricatives than for voiceless fricatives, and there were more extensive transitions of the first formant adjacent to voiced fricatives than for the voiceless cognates.
(5) The following became clear after the investigation: (1) even by the age of 20 her auditory defect had not improved significantly; (2) from an early stage she could not identify either vowels or consonant-vowel syllables; (3) later she had no difficulty identifying vowels, but her consonant-discrimination score hardly improved; and (4) her problem in consonant identification was unique in that she could discriminate between the voiced and voiceless group but had great difficulty identifying the consonants within each group.
(6) Who is more voiceless in Syria now than the children?
(7) It was suggested that the degree and timing of PCA activity were directly responsible for determining the size and temporal course of the glottal opening for voiceless segments, although the suppression of the adductors might also have to be taken into consideration for a complete description of voiceless segment production.
(8) Speakers in the two hypernasal groups, however, showed smaller differences between vowel durations in voiced and voiceless stop environments than did speakers without cleft palate.
(9) This project examined modeled velopharyngeal orifice area estimation under conditions simulating voiceless stop consonant production in the presence of nasal airway obstruction.
(10) However, the contour which was predicted to result in more voiceless judgments also ended at a higher F0 in the vowel, and another effect of voicing is that the F0 is higher throughout the vowel after voiceless stops.
(11) Rather than splicing stimulus words (and trigger pulse needed for computer averaging) onto sentence stems, consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) monosyllablic words were selected with voiceless stop consonants in the word initial position.
(12) Then they felt powerless and voiceless – and now?
(13) Both first formant (F1) transition duration and F1 onset frequency have been proposed to be perceptually significant in categorization of voiced and voiceless syllable-initial stops.
(14) Trade unions and strong local government once trained up those who would have otherwise been voiceless to become rooted politicians, giving them resources, confidence and political know-how.
(15) David Cameron needs us.” Migrant benefits brake could ease voters' anxieties, say experts Read more Talk to newspaper editors and it is clear that the believe they are fighting on two fronts: on behalf of readers who would otherwise be voiceless and to assert their own influence.
(16) Both stutterers and nonstutterers demonstrated a lower percentage of disfluencies during voiced-voiced transitions than during voiced-voiceless, voiceless-voiced, and voiceless-voiceless phonatory transitions.
(17) The aim of the present study was to investigate the laryngeal adjustments for voiced versus voiceless distinction in Japanese consonant production by means of laryngeal electromyography (EMG) and fiberoptic observation.
(18) We report two patients with colonic Crohn's disease and severe respiratory symptoms (dyspnoea associated in one of the patients with voicelessness); erythema, aphthoid and superficial ulcerations were found in the colon and whitish granulations in the bronchi at endoscopy.
(19) Mandela once said of him: "Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless."
(20) Thirty-two subjects between the ages of 60 and 80 years listened to tape-recorded voiceless stop + vowel syllables and subsyllabic segments systematically isolated from the syllables by electronic gating.